Quotes About Medicine

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.

The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once, but when they came they answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.'

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.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

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.

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.

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know, but in a much more complicated manner.

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

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

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.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.