These are not the words of a faint hearted poet but of a person that the field of medicine perhaps deems itself indebted to. They were written by Ibn e Sina in his medical poem in a time when medical practices in Europe were speckled with gruesome and agonizing treatments as they were considered at the time. In his words he reflects upon the management of the psychological distress an ailing person goes through as he wallows in the misery of disease. These might have been the initial strides on the road to holistic medicine taken by medics besides Hippocrates. Like him Avicenna also believed that the diagnosis of any disease was flawed as well as inadequate unless all aspects of the patient’s life were taken into account. This particular notion in today’s day and age is becoming the stepping stone for standard modality of treatment in some parts of the world.