Cure rarely, comfort mostly, but console always - Hippocrates
“One kind word can warm three winter months”—a Japanese saying
“Art” wrote, Henry David Thoreau, “is that which makes another man’s day”
“Know your patient better than his disease” was the opinion of the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates
“Patient care is caring for the patient!” This is the motto of Massachusetts General Hospital and was coined by Sir Francis Peabody
Platt had written in 1949 that “if one were to listen to the patient long enough, the patient would give away his/her diagnosis.”
The study showed that 80% of the accurate final diagnosis and 100% of the future management strategies could be arrived at, at the end of listening to the patient and reading the referral letter. This could only be refined 4% more by all the physical examinations and only 8% by all the investigations including the PET scanner!
Courtesy: http://www.moneylife.in/article/bedside-medicine-a-forgotten-art/25067.html
“One kind word can warm three winter months”—a Japanese saying
“Art” wrote, Henry David Thoreau, “is that which makes another man’s day”
“Know your patient better than his disease” was the opinion of the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates
“Patient care is caring for the patient!” This is the motto of Massachusetts General Hospital and was coined by Sir Francis Peabody
Platt had written in 1949 that “if one were to listen to the patient long enough, the patient would give away his/her diagnosis.”
The study showed that 80% of the accurate final diagnosis and 100% of the future management strategies could be arrived at, at the end of listening to the patient and reading the referral letter. This could only be refined 4% more by all the physical examinations and only 8% by all the investigations including the PET scanner!
Courtesy: http://www.moneylife.in/article/bedside-medicine-a-forgotten-art/25067.html
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