Quotes About Medicine III

Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. ~John Brown

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? ~Martin H. Fischer

Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man – he must view the man in his world. ~Harvey Cushing

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. ~Martin H. Fischer

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.~Samuel J. Meltzer

Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ~A.B. Christie

Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. ~Martin H. Fischer

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. ~Martin H. Fischer

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. ~James B. Herrick

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb

Don’t think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It’s really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.~Author Unknown

Most of those evils we poor mortals know
From doctors and imagination flow.
~Charles Churchill

Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ~Logan Clendening

Don’t take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. ~Author unknown

‘Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ~Ovid