There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963Quotes
Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCPhysician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930