Medicine Quotes
A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the l...
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I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the sa...
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...
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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, ...
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Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient fro...
Show MoreDon't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to...
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Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plas...
Show MoreAll things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poiso...
Show MoreMedicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the...
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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...
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It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...
Show MoreI've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote...
Show MoreThe greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and phys...
Show MoreMy life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leav...
Show MoreI can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...
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Doctors is all swabs.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...
Show MoreAbortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not ...
Show MoreI am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimat...
Show More(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the import...
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Perhaps the greatest danger in the way that alternative therapists behave is simply the promotion of...
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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled...
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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gast...
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You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 968...
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The doctor looked shifty. “He’s still breathing,” he said. “Look, his pulse is nearly humming and he...
Show MoreI saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ...
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In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for th...
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The apothecary’s name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He’d found a...
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Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debase...
Show MoreIs psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise conc...
Show MoreIn the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...
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In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines f...
Show MoreThe task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medici...
Show MoreDoctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they kn...
Show MoreThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...
Show MoreEconomic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the bar...
Show MoreTo talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important dise...
Show MoreWe may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully obser...
Show MoreMedicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of es...
Show MoreEvery medicine is vain.

I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all ...
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In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a tradit...
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through t...
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Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacte...
Show MoreSickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to ...
Show MoreScience of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is...
Show MoreKarma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to...
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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the n...
Show MoreMedicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the n...
Show MoreThe physician heals Nature makes well.
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good o...
Show MoreMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is th...
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On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up a...
Show MoreIn 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common w...
Show MoreGod heals and the doctor takes the fees.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.''Of course they can.''I should ...
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...
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The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a real...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
Show MoreI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I alm...
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