Motivational Quotes

Medicine

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Medicine

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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.

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

Mcclenahan, John L.

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God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

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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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Cousins, Norman

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

Garth, Sir Samuel

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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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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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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

17.

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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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Tronchin, Theodore

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Charles, Prince Of Wales

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Voltaire

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

Jewish Proverb

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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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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

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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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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

Billings, Josh

43.

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

Alice James

44.

Sleep is better than medicine.

45.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon