Philosophy

Dr. Bihl sees his profession as a vocation, aimed helping others and supporting them in achieving their well-being.
Disease prevention is also an important mission of the physician. The relationship with the patient is very important for Dr. Bihl, this must be transparent and honest in order to build trust between patient and doctor.
The physician needs sensibility to understand the patient’s symptoms and problems and only if this empathy is present can we act with altruism and charity to treat the patient. Dr. Bihl dedicates himself to patients and takes the time to listen and advise them, his motto is that each person is the best doctor of himself.
The Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, is an honest and sincere guideline for him.
(The Hippocratic oath – modern text) (The Hippocratic oath – ancient text) 

During his medical training he was in Boston (2003-2006), where he performed basic research in viral immunology (HIV, HCV, HBV) at Harvard University’s Massachusetts General Hospital. During this period, he had the opportunity to participate in a postgraduate course on emotional intelligence (emotional intelligence EI or EQ), which is an ability to recognize, understand and consciously use one’s own and others’ emotions, a necessary element in the doctor’s daily work.

 

Here we wish to share the thoughts of some important personalities:

 

Giovanni Battista Montini, Papa Paolo VI (1897-1978)
Charity and truth are not enemies; just as science and faith, human thought and divine thought are not; extreme critical elaboration and extreme mystical simplicity.

Abraham Joshua Heshel (1907-1972), rabbino, filosofo polacco:
When I was young, I admired intelligent people. When I got old, I admire kind people.

René Descartes (Cartesio) (1596-1650), filosofo e matematico francese
There is nothing entirely in our power, if not our thoughts!

Italo Calvino (1923-1985), scrittore e partigiano italiano
Take life lightly, because lightness is not superficiality, but gliding over things from above, not having boulders on the heart.

Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003), teologa tedesca
A reporter asked me: How would you explain happiness to a child? I wouldn’t explain it to him, I would give him a ball to play!

Studio medico del PD
Dr. med. Florian Bihl
Via Gemmo 11, 6900 Lugano

Tel. 091 966 28 28
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e-mail: florian.bihl@gastromedical.ch