There are four questions which in some form or other every patient asks his doctor: (a) What is the matter with me? This is diagnosis. (b) Can you put me right? This is treatment and prognosis. (c) How did I get it? This is causation. (d) How can I avoid it in future? This is prevention.


Preventive Medicine for the Medical Student, The Lancet, Volume 221, November 21, 1931 (p. 113)

George Newman Quotes

There are four questions which in some form or other every patient asks his doctor: (a) What is the matter with me? This is diagnosis. (b) Can you...

There are four questions which in some form or other every patient asks his doctor: (a) What is the matter with me? This is diagnosis. (b) Can you...

There are four questions which in some form or other every patient asks his doctor: (a) What is the matter with me? This is diagnosis. (b) Can you...

There are four questions which in some form or other every patient asks his doctor: (a) What is the matter with me? This is diagnosis. (b) Can you...