Quotes About Medicine

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

It was the absence of doubt—and scientific rigor—that made medicine unscientific and caused it to stagnate for so long.

All who drink of this treatment recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die," he wrote. "It is obvious, therefore, that it fails only in incurable cases.

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.

For this, he said, is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees or a healer of the sick?

Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician and the cook had to enter into a competition in which children were the judges, or men who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best understands the goodness or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death.

No tendrás, pues, que establecer en la ciudad, junto con esa judicatura, un cuerpo médico de individuos como aquellos de que hablábamos, que cuiden de tus ciudadanos que tengan bien constituidos cuerpo y alma, pero, en cuanto a los demás, dejen morir a aquellos cuya deficiencia radique en sus cuerpos o condenen a muerte ellos mismos a los que tengan un alma naturalmente mala e incorregible?

Agents from Sacramento traveled fifteen hundred miles to arrest the goat-gland king. To the governor of Kansas, Jonathan M. Davis, they presented their warrant for extradition. Davis handed it back and told them to go home. Asked why he refused to surrender Brinkley, the governor was disarmingly frank. "We people in Kansas get fat on his medicine," he said. "We're going to keep him here so long as he lives.

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.

Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery

When the constellation of Cassiopeia is in this hemisphere and I am able to identify it, I feel less alone. This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.