Motivational Quotes

Medicine

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

Best Quotes about Medicine

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

Garth, Sir Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Tronchin, Theodore

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

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

Sir William Osler

10.

God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

11.

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

Voltaire

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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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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Jewish Proverb

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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 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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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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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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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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Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Osler, Sir William

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

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

Mcclenahan, John L.

38.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

40.

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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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Paul, Jean

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

46.

Sleep is better than medicine.

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius