It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
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