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.
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Ivan Illich Quotes
A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness.
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Warfield Theobald Longcope Quotes
A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment.
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Author Unknown Quotes
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
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Horace Quotes
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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Ben Hecht Quotes
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Ovid Quotes
Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
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James Bryce Quotes
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.
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Hindu Proverb Quotes
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
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African Proverb Quotes
Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is - if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess.
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Nicholas de Belleville Quotes
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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Thomas Edison Quotes
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.
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German Proverb Quotes
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Karl Marx Quotes
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.
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William Withey Gull Quotes
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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George Herbert Quotes
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet.
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William Ernest Henley Quotes
Treat the patient, not the Xray.
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James M. Hunter Quotes
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
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Jean Martin Charcot Quotes
Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell.
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Lewis G. Janes Quotes
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
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Ecclesiasticus 38:4 Quotes
Medicines are not meat to live by.
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German Proverb Quotes
When you treat a disease, first treat the mind.
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Chen Jen Quotes
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.
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James B. Herrick Quotes
No doctor is better than three.
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German Proverb Quotes
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
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Giorgio Baglivi Quotes
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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William Osler Quotes
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
Every disease is a physician.
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Irish Proverb Quotes
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
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William Cullen Quotes
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Voltaire Quotes
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
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Harvey Cushing Quotes
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing.
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Benvenuto Cellini Quotes
Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
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John Brown Quotes
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines.
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Grey Livingston Quotes
In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Plato Quotes
For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale.
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Claire Todae Quotes
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
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John Brown Quotes
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
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Charles V. Chapin Quotes
Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Sir Thomas More Quotes
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
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August Bier Quotes
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.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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Norman Cousins Quotes
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.
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Francis O'Walsh Quotes
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
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Arabic Proverb Quotes
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.
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Roul Turley Quotes
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
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William Stewart Halsted Quotes
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Logan Clendening Quotes
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
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French Proverb Quotes
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
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Peter Mere Latham Quotes
Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar.
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Wilfrid G. Oakley Quotes
The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple of Aesculapius.
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John Abernethy Quotes
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him?
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
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Jan King Quotes
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes