Quotations On Medicine II

It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. ~A. Benson Cannon

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. ~Author Unknown

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying. ~Author Unknown

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. ~Martin H. Fischer

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. ~J.J. Walsh

Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. ~George Herbert

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. ~Don Herold

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! ~Martin H. Fischer

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. ~Elbert Hubbard

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is - if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. ~Nicholas de Belleville

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb


Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb


Treat the patient, not the Xray. ~James M. Hunter

God and the Doctor we alike adore
But only when in danger, not before;
The danger o'er, both are alike requited,
God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
~Robert Owen


Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. ~Roul Turley


The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius. ~John Abernethy


A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H. Fischer


Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught,
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
~John Dryden


If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb


When you treat a disease, first treat the mind. ~Chen Jen



Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. ~John Brown



The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison


Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini


So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. ~Auckland Geddes


Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb


The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverb


Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht