To array a man's will against his sickness
is the supreme art of medicine.
?Henry Ward Beecher
A doctor's reputation is made by the number
of eminent men who die under his care.
?George Bernard Shaw
America's health care system is neither
healthy, caring, nor a system.
?Walter Cronkite
Water, air, and cleanness are the
chief articles in my pharmacy.
?Napoleon Bonaparte
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
?French Proverb
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine
is to remain a humanitarian and respected
profession or a new but depersonalized science
in the service of prolonging life rather
than diminishing human suffering.
?Elisabeth KüBler-Ross
He's the best physician that knows the
worthlessness of the most medicines.
?Benjamin Franklin
It requires a great deal of faith for a man
to be cured by his own placebos.
?John L. McClenahan
If we practiced medicine like we practice
education, we'd look for the liver on the
right side and left side in alternate years.
?Alfred Kazin
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest
feature which distinguishes man from animals.
?Sir William Osler
Medicine can only cure curable
diseases, and then not always.
?Chinese Proverb
He who lives by medical
prescriptions lives miserably.
?Proverb
Medicine, the only profession that
labors incessantly to destroy
the reason for its existence.
?James Bryce
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than
to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.
?Christiaan Barnard
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
?Proverb
By medicine life may be prolonged,
yet death will seize the doctor too.
?William Shakespeare
