Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery in which from time to time he goes to pray a cemetery of bitterness and regret of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.
~ Rend Leriche
Symptoms then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
~ Jean-Martin Charcot
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
~ John Donne
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
~ Florence Nightingale
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
~ Publilius Syrus
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
~ Alexander Pope
To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
~ Charles Lamb
Every invalid is a physician.
~ Irish Proverb
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money he wouldn't lay a hand on you.
~ Herb Shriner
A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps.
~ Alexander D. Fleming
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
~ William Osier
I was sick and ye visited me.
~ Bible
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.
~ Arthur Young
Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.
~ Proverbs
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
~ Sir Auckland Geddes
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
~ Michel De Montaigne
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
~ John L. Mcclenahan
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.
~ Bela Schick
Those in the United States who by and large have the best medical care and advice readily available to them at the least expense are the families of the specialists in internal medicine. These families use less medicine and undergo less surgery on the whole than any other group rich or poor.
~ Edward C. Lambert
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Doctor feel my purse.
~ Jane Ace
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~ Henry Maudsley
There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.
~ Samuel Bard
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my youth once when I had a really exquisite toothache I suddenly realized that my tooth had temporarily become the centre of the universe that its outcries were more important than anything else and that I would do absolutely anything to placate it. And as one gets older and starts worrying about cancer one becomes more and more conscious of the fragility of the whole body and with that consciousness comes a new and degrading kind of fear. It is degrading because it strengthens the desire to survive on any terms and the desire to survive on any terms is the most base of all our instincts.
~ Otto Friedrich
If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
~ Goethe
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
~ Samuel Butler
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
~ English Proverb
Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know but in a much more complicated manner.
~ Alphonse Raymond Dochez
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.
~ Thomas Mann
Invalids live longest.
~ German Proverb
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
~ Paul Dudley White
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.
~ Arnold Lazarus
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.
~ Itzhak Perlman
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
~ Max Lerner
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
