Motivational Quotes

Medicine

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

Best Quotes about Medicine

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Voltaire

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

Osler, Sir William

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

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

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

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

Billings, Josh

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.

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

12.

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

Mcclenahan, John L.

13.

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

Garth, Sir Samuel

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

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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.

27.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

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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

29.

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jewish Proverb

33.

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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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

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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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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

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

Sir William Osler

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

Alice James

40.

Sleep is better than medicine.

41.

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

44.

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

Seneca

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

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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