Quotes About Medicine

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 don't overdose

Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer's art.

Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy. -Groucho Marx

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.

Stories were as delicious as food. As important as food. Bella could not live without stories. Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

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Laughter wasn't just a medicine for melancholy, but also a sword raised against evil. A laugh said, You can't scare me into surrender, I'll fight you hard to the end.

Fiftyish, with a thickening waist and thinning blond hair, he had the weary look of a man who'd seen more death than he had bargained for when the romance of the healer's profession had long ago lured him into medical school.

the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Every inappropriate prescription and insufficient dose given in medicine would kill weak bacteria but let the strong survive.

In the early twentieth century it had been used to remove the hair of children with scalp infections, such as ringworm, so that doctors could see and treat the fungus. But that practice had been abandoned when too many of the toddlers died.

thousands of years of study and experience have made it easier to heal the body, but no one has gotten much past square one on the human mind.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing.

La curación proviene del paciente, no del médico.

Some jobs in medicine require a certain ruthlessness to complete successfully; detachment is necessary to inflict pain in the process of effecting a healing

I blotted the tiny wound with the corner of a towel dipped in the vinegar solution. To my surprise, the leeches had worked; the swelling was substantially reduced, and the eye was at least partially open, though the lid was still puffy. Mrs. Fitz examined it critically and decided against the use of another leech. "Ye'll be a sight tomorrow, lad, and no mistake," she said, shaking her head, "but at least ye'll be able to see oot o' that eye.

BILIOUS HUMOURS

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To fight disease without medicine is to push against a shadow; a darkness that spreads as inexorably as night.

The maxillary muscles run from the sagittal crest at the top of the skull to an insertion on the mandible," I thought, dimly recalling the description from Grey's Anatomy.

I was going to be a doctor, but who makes it as a doctor anymore?

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

My father was a doctor.