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Dr. Sachin Swargiary

MBBS, MD (General Medicine)
Physician • Educator • Writer
✒️ FROM MY DESK

A Journey in Medicine

This website is a reflection of my journey in medicine and a small space to share, learn and grow together. I dedicate it with gratitude to my family, friends, teachers, students, colleagues and fellow professionals who have shaped this journey. I hope the learning within these pages helps someone understand better, care more thoughtfully and remain inspired to keep learning. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

Dr Sachin Swargiary
WISDOM FROM MEDICAL HISTORY

Giants of Medicine

Timeless words on medicine, healing and the care of patients.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

— Hippocrates

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

— William Osler

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

— William Osler

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business.

— William Osler

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

— Edward Livingston Trudeau

The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

— Francis W. Peabody

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

— William Osler

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

— Maimonides

Medicine is not only a science; it is also the art of letting our individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

— Albert Schweitzer

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

— Martin H. Fischer

The patient is the most important person in the hospital.

— Charles H. Mayo

The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered.

— William J. Mayo

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

— William Osler

Observation, reason, human understanding, courage; these make the physician.

— Martin H. Fischer

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

First do no harm.

— Traditional medical maxim

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

— Hippocrates

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

— Hippocrates

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

— William Osler

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

— William Osler

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business.

— William Osler

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

— Edward Livingston Trudeau

The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

— Francis W. Peabody

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

— William Osler

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

— Maimonides

Medicine is not only a science; it is also the art of letting our individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

— Albert Schweitzer

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

— Martin H. Fischer

The patient is the most important person in the hospital.

— Charles H. Mayo

The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered.

— William J. Mayo

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

— William Osler

Observation, reason, human understanding, courage; these make the physician.

— Martin H. Fischer

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

First do no harm.

— Traditional medical maxim

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

— Hippocrates