What’s a doctor, anyway?

by Eric Grey on June 26, 2007

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
-Thomas Fuller

There is no good theory of disease that does not at once suggest a cure.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cure sometimes
Treat often
Comfort always
-Hippocrates

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison

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