The Patient is a Besieged City
The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
Notes:
A good metaphor from Alexander of Tralles.
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Concepts:
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Patient (0.910016): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Alexander the Great (0.815094): dbpedia | freebase | yago
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Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations