Quotes About Medicine

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Too much medicine was what ailed Dick Colton. Not that he had been taking it. On the contrary he had been administering it to others.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique is not able to number the days of a man;" which, God knows, is not the fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing.

Egész nap orvosságot szedtem, és Isten ne vegye b?nömül, holmi francia regények olvasásával mulattam magam.

When doctors think they've eradicated a disease, they stop looking for it. So if the disease itself suddenly shows up again, they may not even recognize it; they may even mistake it for an entirely new one.

Primum non nocere, 'First, don't make things worse,' was an essential principle of Hippocrates' medicine. Nowadays, unfortunately, it seems to have been forgotten. Conventional modern medicine aims at getting rid of patients' symptoms. Little, if any consideration is given to the fact that some of these symptoms may actually be used by the body in an attempt to correct deeper disorders. When this is the case, suppressing the symptom does not necessarily help the patient.

The patient is the one with the disease

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with you, who'd mistakenly invested in academic medicine when he'd have been happy in his family business, and who'd become a splattered mess on the parking lot of a hospital in a city he'd despised. What had been the seductiveness of medicine? Why?

It's our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can't do much about. So maybe we do make diagnoses; big deal. We hardly ever cure.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.

The best doctors in the world are healers and not dealers!

Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus

There's a saying in medicine that no one is dead until they are warm and dead.

Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.