Quotes on medical
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.
Illich, Ivan
A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.
Fischer, Martin H.
A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment.
Unknown, Author
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Horace
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
Hecht, Ben
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.
Proverb, Hindu
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases.
Marx, Karl
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet.
Henley, William Ernest
Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell.
Janes, Lewis G.
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
38:4, Ecclesiasticus
No doctor is better than three.
Proverb, German
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
Baglivi, Giorgio
To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
Amiel, Henri
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
Proverb, Chinese
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
Brown, John
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
Fischer, Martin H.
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
Plato
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
Brown, John
Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
Fischer, Martin H.
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Cousins, Norman
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient.
Fischer, Martin H.
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.
Turley, Roul
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
Halsted, William Stewart
The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius.
Abernethy, John
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
Amiel, Henri