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
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.
Edison, Thomas
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases.
Marx, Karl
Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.
Gull, William Withey
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet.
Henley, William Ernest
Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
Charcot, Jean Martin
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
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.
Herrick, James B.
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
Every disease is a physician.
Proverb, Irish
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
Proverb, Chinese
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
Cullen, William
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.
In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.
Unknown, Author
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.
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
Bier, August
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.
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
Proverb, Arabic
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.
Turley, Roul
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
Fischer, Martin H.
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
Halsted, William Stewart
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.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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.
Clendening, Logan
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Latham, Peter Mere
Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar.
Oakley, Wilfrid G.
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
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.
Fischer, Martin H.
The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him?
Fischer, Martin H.
When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.
Fischer, Martin H.