The art is long, life is short
HippocratesRead
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
Interpretation
Contentment with a physician can positively influence a patientβs recovery.
This quote by Hippocrates highlights the importance of a positive patient-physician relationship, suggesting that the reassurance and goodness exhibited by healthcare providers can significantly impact patients' mental well-being and, consequently, their physical recovery. It emphasizes how a patient's faith and comfort in their physician can facilitate healing, even in dire situations.
In practice
During a health seminar focusing on the importance of mental health in recovery.
The art is long, life is short
The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.
The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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