Health care

Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

Quotes

Je le pansai, Dieu le guérit.
- I bandaged him, God healed him.
- Ambroise Paré, saying inscribed on the pedestal of his statue in Laval. In 1522, near Metz, a citizen had been pierced by twelve sword thrusts and was left to die; but Paré was able to treat him: "I was his doctor, pharmacist, surgeon and cook: I bandaged him until the end of the treatment, and God healed him." — Jean-Michel Delacomptée, Ambroise Paré, La main savante (Gallimard, 2007), p. 166; originally from "Voyage d'Allemagne", Œuvres, vol. III, p. 698. Elsewhere Paré also wrote: "Preservation lies more in the divine providence than in the physician or surgeon’s advice." — Jean-Pierre Poirier, Ambroise Paré (Paris, 2006), p. 33. The sentiment is reminiscent of the Latin adage Medicus curat, natura sanat.—"The physician cures, nature heals." Variant: Je le soignay—Dieu le guérit.

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