So I got this excerpt while reading something online and I was indeed touched so i decided to share it to the steem community. I learnt some things that would be beneficial to medical practice. Sometimes as a doctor, you need to stop look and listen. Hear out your patient. Medicine is a two way business. Don't be too quick to say a patient is ill, sometimes psychology is involved. His body might not be down but his spirit is. Good instinct helps you differentiate mind sickness and physical sickness. Nothing is black or white in medicine, no drug is perfect on everybody. Medicine cannot provide complete solution to all ailments, sometimes a divine assistance is required, a miracle.
Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to learn his story.
For once you learn his story,
You will also come to know
His body.
Before you diagnose any sickness,
Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.
For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,
Can point to the sickness in
Any one of his other parts.
Before you treat a man with a condition,
Know that not all cures can heal all people.
For the chemistry that works on one patient,
May not work for the next,
Because even medicine has its own
Conditions.
Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,
Always be objective and never subjective.
For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,
But then later discovering that he will lose,
Will harm him more than by telling him
That he may lose,
But then he wins.