Endpiece: The physician's objectives

BMJ 2002;324:1448 ( 15 June )

Endpiece

The physician's objectives

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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice theseacts.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things $---$ to help, or at least do noharm.

The art has there factors, the disease, the patient, thephysician.

The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must co-operate with the physician in combating thedisease.

Hippocrates, Epidemics I, xi. Translated by WHS Jones. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995

Submitted by Jeremy Hugh Baron, honorary professorial lecturer, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

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