The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.
~ David Kline
To cure sometimes to relieve often to comfort always.
~ Anonymous
Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.
~ Larry Adler
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
~ George Dennison Prentice
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
~ William Osier
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
~ Herbert Ratner
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.
~ Jerome Tarshis
If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
~ Florynce Kennedy
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
~ Ronald Reagan
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
~ Sigmund Freud
The body never lies.
~ Martha Graham
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
~ Grace Paley
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
~ Arthur Adamov
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
~ Peter Latham
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.
~ Christian Barnard
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.
~ Jean De La Bruyère
After dinner rest a while after supper walk a mile.
~ Arabic Proverb
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
~ Cyril Connolly
Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.
~ Hippocrates
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
~ Abraham Flexner
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
~ Martin H. Fisher
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.
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
