Quotes About Healing

When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?

Protection does not come in a bottle. It is in me, in my actions, in my thoughts. I am the best medicine for myself. I am the cure and the disease.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Similia similibus curantur [Likes are cured by likes].

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Too much medicine was what ailed Dick Colton. Not that he had been taking it. On the contrary he had been administering it to others.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

What were you in a mental hospital for?" "Depression. But it was a long time ago.

There are times when you must walk by yourself because it hurts so much to be alone.

I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven's height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise them; and make deaths, that He may quicken them; and spin out and dig hells to themselves, that He may ransom them.

dare not thank myself, but I dare thank God's depth of wise providence, that I have an errand in me, while I live, for Christ to come and visit me, and bring with Him His drugs and His balm.

Primum non nocere, 'First, don't make things worse,' was an essential principle of Hippocrates' medicine. Nowadays, unfortunately, it seems to have been forgotten. Conventional modern medicine aims at getting rid of patients' symptoms. Little, if any consideration is given to the fact that some of these symptoms may actually be used by the body in an attempt to correct deeper disorders. When this is the case, suppressing the symptom does not necessarily help the patient.

Time heals wounds, my dear; it cannot rub out scars.

I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.

We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fury of the half-blind looking into the mirror and not recognizing who is looking back, a dear friend, a dear reliever, a healer who would be with them for an eternity, the same eternity as the long ago, before birth.

The main source of illness in this world is the doctor's own illness: his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.

To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

took her in my arms and let her cry, and I was crying too. After she'd quieted some, I asked for her husband's number, and after I did the workup for rape, I called him. He'd been worried stiff, and was glad she was not dead. He couldn't know, yet, that part of her had died.