Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. ~John Brown
The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? ~Martin H. Fischer
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ~Harvey Cushing
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. ~Charles V. Chapin
Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverbx-ray plates, you are slipping. ~Martin H. Fischer
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient. ~William Withey Gull
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician. ~William Cullen
The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull
A Short History of Medicine
2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."
1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."
1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."
1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."
2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."
~Author Unknown
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~Anton Chekhov
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. ~Ecclesiasticus 38:4
A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. ~Author Unknown
Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~John Diamond
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. ~Ivan Illich
Patients may recover in spite of drugs or because of them. ~J.H. Gaddum
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ~Benjamin Franklin
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