Medical Quotes - Page 36

• Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

  John Shaw Billings

  Science, Men, Use

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• People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Men, Pneumonia, Patient

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• It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  People, May, More Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Dark, Years

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• You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Doctors, Creative, Looks

  "For Egyptian Activist, A Dream Finally Realized". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 12, 2011.

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• Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Antidote

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

  Richard Whately

  Use, Made, Framing

  Richard Whately (1846). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.394

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• What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

  Israel Zangwill

  Ignorance, Doctors, Giving

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.558, Library of Alexandria

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• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Doctors, Long, Physicians

  Medical Nemesis

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

  Norman Cousins

  Determination, Attitude, Moving

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• When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

  Dawna Markova

  Cancer, Team, Healing

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press

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• God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

  Robert Owen

  God, Doctors, Forgotten

  Epigram Cf. 256:27

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• And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life And Death, Friendly, Quiet

  William Ernest Henley (2016). “A Book of Verses”, p.1, Read Books Ltd

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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

  William Ernest Henley

  Hot, Hey, Tables

  William Ernest Henley, “Operation”

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• It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

  James Walsh

  Running, Car, Sometimes

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• WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Disease, Died

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2014

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• God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.323

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• We know the cause of SIDS. We can and have prevented them. It's all done with a compound called ascorbate. Not to use it means deaths will continue. There is no other answer. There never will be. For our findings are based on scientific facts. Not medical opinion.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Mean, Use, Done

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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Fear, Medicine, Understanding

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• I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, People, Quality

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• Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Health, Addiction, Progress

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.219, Health Research Books

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