Johann Hermann Baas quotes

“Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.”
-- Johann Hermann Baas

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“From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.”

“Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.”

“The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.”

“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”

“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”

“The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.”

Source : 1973 Habeas Corpus.

“With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity.”