Motivational Quotes

Medicine

God help the patient.

- Mansfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Medicine

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

Seneca

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Hippocrates

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Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country.

Loffler, Charles Lyman

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To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Sir William Osler

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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Sleep is better than medicine.

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

Mcclenahan, John L.

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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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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

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Tronchin, Theodore

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

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

Voltaire

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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

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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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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

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Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

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

Osler, Sir William

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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

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.