Motivational Quotes

Medicine

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Medicine

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

Nixon, Richard M.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Kocher, Gerhard

The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition --God knows which --dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.

Hahnemann, Samuel

Sleep is better than medicine.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Illich, Ivan

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

Voltaire

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Nightingale, Florence

10.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Garth, Sir Samuel

11.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Sir William Osler

12.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

14.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Shakespeare, William

15.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca

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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? [Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5]

Bible

17.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Sir William Osler

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Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.

Charles, Prince Of Wales

24.

While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.

Kent, James Tyler

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She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

West, Rebecca

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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

Paul, Jean

27.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Osler, Sir William

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It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Mcclenahan, John L.

30.

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus, Philipus A.

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

33.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

34.

Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation.

Delort, Maurice

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From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but thefurtherextension of the health system.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced. Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.

Krebs, Jr., Ernst T.

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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

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You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Lewis, Joe E.

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In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.

Tronchin, Theodore

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius