Philosophy Of Medicine Quotes

“Your warmth has more healing power upon the patient than all the medical tools in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“The world doesn't need more smart doctors, it needs more warm and wise doctors. Be the wisdom yourself - be the warmth yourself, and be the doctor that the doctors have forgotten to be, for it is time to save medicine, to save humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“The world is full of doctors,
but healers are rare.
The world is full of pills,
but medicine is rare.
The world is full of stethoscopes,
but listening is rare.
And when someone’s in misery,
I have no doubt you’ll appear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, See No Gender

“MEDICINE means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sick are not those who possess a sickness, but those who are possessed by sickness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“MEDICINE means Mercy – Empathy – Dare – Integrity – Care – Ingenuity – and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Medicine Means (The Sonnet)

MEDICINE means Mercy,
MEDICINE means Empathy,
MEDICINE means Dare,
MEDICINE means Integrity,
MEDICINE means Care,
MEDICINE means Ingenuity,
MEDICINE means Nobility,
MEDICINE means Ethicality.
Medicine is not a profession,
Medicine is but a sacred calling.
An average doctor saves a body,
A good doctor saves a being.
Pathogens exist to cash in on sickness.
A doctor exists to be lost among patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“For a patient to be fully treated by a doctor, the patient must be willing to put all psychological guards down and be vulnerable. And this can only happen if the patient can trust the doctor, and this trust can only be induced through the release of oxytocin, which can only be triggered in the patient's brain by the will of a doctor with a genuine act of kindness on the doctor's part.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Yours are the scrubs of hope and stetho of sanctity.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Treatment of sickness is a part of Medicine, but it's not the whole of Medicine.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“A life without sickness is a life without wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Medicine means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics, or it can mean Mechanical, Egotistical, Dehumanizing, Indifferent, Cold, Insensitive, Nincompoop Elitist. You decide what you practice, and your decision will determine what you are - a doctor or a butcher!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)

We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don't bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.

Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.

We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.

Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Smile Before Pills (Sonnet 1402)

The only permanence we have is each other,
The only paradise we have is each other.
Heaven is as real as we are to each other,
Most potent medicine we have is each other.

One moment of love is time eternal,
100 years of hate are but ghost of wild past.
One rebellion of love is destiny in making,
100 rituals of hate are just monkeys' mass.

A smile works faster than a pill,
both metaphorically and physiologically.
Pills take hours to reach your bloodstream, while
a smile triggers instant release of neurochemicals,
which alleviates pain and facilitates immunity.

Sure, pills and prescriptions are a scientific boon,
They achieve wonders where organic powers fall short.
Yet, there is no prescription for a mannerless medico,
There is no pharmaceutical cure for a medical upstart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets