Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

helpers. They must be prepared for this and not
become excited or unbalanced. They must be calm
and kind, whatever may occur.... They should ever
consider that they are dealing with men and women
of diseased minds, who frequently view things in a
perverted light and yet are confident that they
understand matters perfectly.
Physicians should understand that a soft answer
turneth away wrath. Policy must be used in an
institution where the sick are treated, in order to
successfully control diseased minds and benefit the
sick. If physicians can remain calm amid a tempest
of inconsiderate, passionate words, if they can rule
their own spirits when provoked and abused, they
are indeed conquerors. “He that ruleth his spirit” is
better “than he that taketh a city.” Proverbs 16:32.
To subdue self and bring the passions under the
control of the will is the greatest conquest that men
and women can achieve.—Testimonies for the
Church 3:182, 183 (1872).
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