Best Medical Quotes

• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wise, Ayurveda, Medicine

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Taken, Medicine, Medical

  Napoleon in Exile (Barry O'Meara)

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• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

  William Osler

  Art, Science, Medicine

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Health, Exercise, Animal

  In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14

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• Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

  William Osler

  Common Sense, Water, Soap

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 5

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• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

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• The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

  Josh Billings

  Medicine, Gout, Lord

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• Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1222, Delphi Classics

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• I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Giving Up, Beer, Alcohol

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Doctors

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• The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

  Norman Cousins

  Thinking, People, Way

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• We must also ensure that we have the best medical care, education, and support for our military service members and their families, both when they serve and when they return to civilian life.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Support, Care

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

  Robert Urich

  Friends, Advice, Together

  Robert Urich's speech in Wisconsin, 2001.

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• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Decision, Advice, Want

  "The Kevorkian Verdict". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. May 14, 1996.

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• We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.

  Robert A. Burton

  Doctors, Ideas, Differences

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.164, Macmillan

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• The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.

  Sterling W Sill

  School, Successful, Doctors

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• If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

  George Pataki

  New York, World, Medical

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