Words of Wisdom

"Healing a chronic neck or back pain requires that a person is willing to change, that the change takes place, and that once affected the change is maintained. The willingness to change is an act of faith and courage."

Paul Gordon

 

"The magic is not in the medicine, but in the patient's body—in the vis medicatrix nature, the recuperative or self-corrective energy of nature.  What treatment does is to stimulate natural functions or to remove what hinders them."

C. S. Lewis

 

"In its modern usage, outcomes research refers to a very specific study.  It is a branch of clinical research that is broadening the definitions of the valid indicators of health.  Outcomes research is notable for its emphasis on patient satisfaction with the outcomes of care and for its inclusion of their subjective perception on how the quality of life is affected by the medical care they receive."

Bernard Rineberg, M.D.
Editorial JBJS Dec 1990

 

"Such experiences have taught me that what is paraded as a scientific fact is simply the current belief of some scientists.  We are accustomed to regard science as truth with a capitol T.  What scientific knowledge is, in fact, is the best available approximation of truth in the judgment of the majority of scientists who work in the particular specialty involved."

Scott Peck, M.D.

 

"Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important."

Robert Kaplan

 

"The cost of a thing is the amount of life required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

Henry David Thoreau

 

"We ascribe to science much more authority than it deserves.  We do so for two reasons.  One is that very few of us understand the limitations of science.  The other is that we are too dependent on authority in general."

Scott Peck, M.D.

 

"New paradigms put everyone practicing old paradigms at great risk.  And the higher one's position, the greater that risk.  The better you are at your paradigm, the more you have invested in it.  To change your paradigm is to lose that investment."

Joel Arthur Barker

 

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and scurry off as if nothing had happened."

Scott Peck, M.D.