Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the … - Petr Skrabanek

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I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Petr Skrabanek

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

Conquering, Disease And Death, Journey, Men, Minimising, Suffering

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Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods

19Th, According, Negative, Sound, Waste

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

Longer, Personal, Political, Sickness, States, Unhealth

A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.

Lectures, May, Memorising, Textbooks, Truth

The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure

Belief, Improvement, Physician, Physicians, Powerful

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

Conceit, Cynics, Falseness, Names, Snarl, Tried

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