The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

~Socrates, (470-399 BC)

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

~Harvey Cushing, M.D. (1869 – 1939)

To live long, live slowly.

~Cicero

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

~ John Shaw Billings

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

~George Bernard Shaw

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

~Plato

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

~Martin H. Fischer

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

~Sir William Osler, M.D. (1849-1919)

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

~Edward Livingston Trudeau, M.D.

Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict.

~A.B. Christie

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Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Fearer is currently the only board-certified geriatric medicine specialist in private practice in Santa Barbara. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine and has maintained an office in Montecito for the past 25 years.

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