What did homer mean by this? Do agree or disagree? Justify your answer

Even in the anguish
of a situation like this, with a night of anxiety ahead of him,
he was still capable of remembering what Homer wrote in
the Iliad, the greatest poem about death and suffering ever
written, A doctor is worth several men, words we should not
accept as a straightforward expression of quantity, but
above all, of quality, as we shall soon see.