Quotes About:  Medical

Benvenuto Cellini ⇒

Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing.

Auckland Geddes ⇒

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

Dutch Proverb ⇒

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.

French Proverb ⇒

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

Ben Hecht ⇒

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Ecclesiasticus 384 ⇒

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

Author Unknown ⇒

A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report.

John Diamond ⇒

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

Ivan Illich ⇒

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.

JH Gaddum ⇒

Patients may recover in spite of drugs or because of them.