The swnw's clinical judgment on cases on which he would contend was really very sound for his time.  In the questionable cases the swnw prescribed a diet, tried to make the patient as comfortable as possible, and then "moor him at his mooring stakes."  This expression, that occurs quite frequently in the Smith Papyrus, means to let the patient sit with a pile of bricks supporting him.  The term “mooring” is used to compare a sick person sitting in bed while everyone else is moving about the room with a boat moored on the Nile River while river traffic passes it by.  Medically it means the swnw would do what he could to help his patient, realizing in the end it was up to the gods to either cure or kill his patient.