Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

 Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. ☞ James B. Herrick

Don’t think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It’s really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ☞ Author Unknown

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. ☞ Charles Churchill

Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ☞ Logan Clendening

Don’t take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. ☞ Author unknown

‘Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ☞ Ovid

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor’s bill an’ ye niver can read his purscription. ☞ Finley Peter Dunne

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax – tomorrow you’ll be afraid to cough. ☞ Pearl Williams

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ☞ Henry Ward Beecher

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life! ☞ Emily Dickinson

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,

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ☞ Voltaire

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

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. ☞ Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ☞ Henri Amiel

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

Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it. ☞ William Shakespeare

I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. ☞ Betsy Salkind

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ☞ Peter Mere Latham

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ☞ Author Unknown

Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ☞ Jean Martin Charcot

I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ☞ Jerome K. Jerome,

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. ☞ Alexander of Tralles

Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. ☞ Author Unknown

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

Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ☞ James Bryce

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

Until a physician has killed one or two he is not a physician. ☞ Kashmiri Proverb

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ☞ Chinese Proverb

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you – that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. ☞ Henri Amiel

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And give it us for keeps. ☞ Pam Ayres

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-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

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ☞ Malcolm Muggeridge

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. ☞ Wilfrid G. Oakley

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. ☞ Peter Mere Latham

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician’s visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ☞ Warfield Theobald Longcope

Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I’m supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. ☞ Jan King

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ☞ Erma Bombeck

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ☞ Plato

Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ☞ C. Jeff Miller

In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ☞ Author Unknown

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ☞ Robert Burton

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ☞ James H. Boren

A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier’s office. ☞ Francis O’Walsh

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies? ☞ E.Y. Harburg

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ☞ Bill Walton

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ☞ Thomas More,