Doctors
group · 5 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
doctors · invalids · patient · patients · persons in good health · physicians · sick persons
in the texts
Aphorisms
The sick individuals under treatment, whose diet, evacuations, sleep, and symptoms are described throughout.
Old persons endure fasting most easily;
and therefore an extremely attenuating diet must be used.
Purgative medicines agree ill with persons in good health.
Alcibiades 2
Physicians whose way of speaking about differing diseases is invoked to support the analogy about degrees of unwisdom.
though everything of the sort is a disease, but differs—to quote those whom we call doctors— in its manifestation.
Laches
Medical practitioners repeatedly cited as a profession that knows what is dangerous within its craft without thereby being courageous.
but they are none the more courageous for that.
What is Laches saying, in your opinion, Nicias?
for instance, do not doctors know what is to be dreaded in disease?
Republic
Medical practitioners, cited as increasingly necessary once the city abandons the simple, healthy way of life.
Doctors, too, are something whose services we shall be much more likely to require if we live thus than as before?
Memorabilia
Medical experts and their patients used to illustrate knowledge-based rule.
if medicine, as good doctors;
in farming the landowners, in illness the patients, in training those who are in training, in fact everybody concerned with anything that needs care, look after it themselves if they think they know how, but, if not, they obey those who know, and not only when such are present, but they even send for them when absent, that they may obey them and do the right thing.