Medicine Quotes

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

When you hear hoofbeats think of horses before zebras.

The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

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

I came I saw I concurred.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

Physician heal thyself.

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

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.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.