Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.

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Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of...

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less...

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

My music isn't just music, it's medicine.

My music isn't just music, it's medicine.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine...

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine...

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one,...

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one,...

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession...

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession...

I find the medicine worse than the malady

I find the medicine worse than the malady

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true...

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true...

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To...

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To...

This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about...

This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about...

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I...

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I...