Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. ☞ Alonzo Clark

Here’s good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ☞ William Osler

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

Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ☞ A.B. Christie

And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet. ☞ William Ernest Henley

For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they’re damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It’s about time we brought some balance back to the scale. ☞ Claire Todae

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. ☞ William Stewart Halsted

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

To save a man’s life against his will is the same as killing him. ☞ Horace

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. ☞ Mortimer Collins

One doctor makes work for another. ☞ English Proverb

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ☞ Anton Chekhov,

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. ☞ Giorgio Baglivi

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ☞ Thomas Szasz

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,

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

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. ☞ Martin H. Fischer

The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. ☞ Grey Livingston

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. ☞ Samuel J. Meltzer

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ☞ Cicero