Swami Vivekananda's Quotes On Doctors ~ Swami Vivekananda Quotes

In this article you'll find Swami Vivekananda's quotations on doctors or physicians. Vivekananda's personal experiences with doctors (eg. quote like The doctors have put me to bed; and I am forbidden to. . .) will not be included in this article.

Swami Vivekananda on doctors

My idea is that it is better even to die under the treatment
of a scientific doctor than expect recovery from the treatment
of laymen who know nothing of modern science

—Swami Vivekananda

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Swamiji told—

A learned doctor of the West observes that the people who have chronic stomach complaints generally tend to a melancholy and renouncing nature, and the people suffering from complaints of the heart and the upper parts of the body have always hope and faith to the last; the cholera patient is from the very beginning afraid of death, while the consumptive patient hopes to the last moment that he will recover.^[Source]
A Guru should be a doctor of men. He should understand the nature of his disciple and teach him the method which suits him best.^[Source]
"आत्मानं सततं रक्षेत्—One must save oneself under any circumstances." "Lord have mercy", is all right, but He helps him who helps himself. If you simply try to save your purse, will the Lord arrange the change for you by drawing on His ancestral capital? If you think you have so much reliance on the Lord, don't call in the doctor, please. . . .^[Source]
Can you put life into this dead mass — dead to almost all moral aspiration, dead to all future possibilities — and always ready to spring upon those that would try to do good to them? Can you take the position of a physician who tries to pour medicine down the throat of a kicking and refractory child? . . .^[Source]
Missionary doctors do no good, because they are not in touch with the people. . . .^[Source]
My idea is that it is better even to die under the treatment of a scientific doctor than expect recovery from the treatment of laymen who know nothing of modern science, but blindly go by the ancient books, without gaining a mastery of the subject -- even though they may have cured a few cases.^[Source]
People with emaciated bodies and long faces are fit subjects for the physician, they are not Yogis.^[Source]
There is a whole mass of lunatics today poring over these things day and night. All this is a sort of disease. It is not for the metaphysician at all; it is for the physician.^[Source]