paging dr. house

[aranel]

"The other physicians know little of the arts; they resort to friendly, pleasing, charming words; they advise people with breeding and fine words; they set forth all things at length, delightfully, with distinct differentiations, and say: Come again soon, my dear sir; my dear wife, go and accompany the gentleman, etc. I say thus: What wilt thou? I have no time now; it is not so urgent. ... They have made fools of the patients that they are completely of the belief that a friendly, affectionate manner, ceremony, ingratiating ways, much ado, constitute art and medicine."

--Paracelsus, The Reply to Certain Calumniations of His Enemies