Author of quotes: Hippocrates. Page 2

The doctor's office should be prepared to have the ability to act. If you do not follow this rule, you can easily be in a difficult position when there is a need in the art of the doctor.

The doctor should have a good memory. It needs to remember all the drugs that were prescribed to patients, and remember what kind of effect they had on each patient, depending on the characteristics of himself and his disease. This is in medicine a beginning, middle and end.

If you don't change your lifestyle, then you have no one and nothing will help.
(Those who don't want to change your life, help is impossible.)

The doctor should be always calm.

Physicians, like philosophers, with reverence for the gods. For though they can do a lot to treat, but they more than others have the opportunity and occasion to see and understand that there is much that superior to them in strength and skill, is in itself, beyond anything but the will from above.

The disease is not dumped on his head like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. It is the result of constant violations of the laws of nature. Constantly expanding and accumulating, these violations, suddenly erupt in the form of the disease, but this is only its apparent suddenness.

Philosopher and physician are United in the denial of intemperance, covetousness, contempt in his inordinate greed, avarice, theft and shamelessness.

The doctor should take care to avoid empty talk about different things unrelated to business. You need to talk only about the Essentials.

Philosophers and doctors have the same attitude to friendship, to children, to property.

The doctor should be polite and open to people, because the severity makes it unavailable for the healthy and the sick.

Need to transfer wisdom into medicine and medicine into wisdom.

Unsuccessful operation brings double harm. The patient in pain, the doctor - shame.

The physician should be reasonable and prudence should be always visible, his wisdom should be manifested in the arrangement of his life, and in the details. And all this is necessary to ensure that people believed him, because to entrust their health they can only someone you respect who have a good reputation and who are of good reputation. Just the right his own life and can bring a person good fame and make it respected by others.

The doctor should not be cowardly. Patients do not believe the person weak in spirit.