Medical Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Martin H. Fischer
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| 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. |
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| It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. |
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| A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. |
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| Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. |
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| One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying. |
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| To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. |
| - Erma Bombeck |
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| Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. |
| - Robert Burton |
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| In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. |
| - Cicero |
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| I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. |
| - Finley Peter Dunne |
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| After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. |
| - W.C. Fields |
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| A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. |
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| A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. |
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| A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. |
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| Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. |
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| Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. |
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| In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. |
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| Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. |
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| 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. |
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| Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. |
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| Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. |
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| Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. |
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| The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! |
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| The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? |
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| The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. |
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| When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. |
| - Don Herold |
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| I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. |
| - Plato |
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| No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. |
| - Hindu Proverb |
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| Every disease is a physician. |
| - Irish Proverb |
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| Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. |
| - Thomas Szasz |
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| The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. |
| - Voltaire |
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