Henri de Mondeville famous quotes

Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.
-- Henri de Mondeville

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Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.
-- Henri de Mondeville

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Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.
-- Henri de Mondeville

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Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.
-- Henri de Mondeville

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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.