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MEDICAL QUOTES
Medical Quotes

It's a lot safer for doctors  to kill their patients with treatments that have been approved than to cure them with treatments that challenge tradition. -- Jane Fagen

Medicine has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder, and tampering ingeniously till nature either kills or cures him -- Jeffrey


The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor within him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor that resides within each patient the chance to go to work. --
Albert Schweitzer


Patients come to us, little knowing that there is a doctor inside their own heads.  The answer to our problems is locked up inside ourselves. -- Albert Schweitzer


When your sitting on a tack, it takes a incredible amount of aspirin to make you feel better.  If your sitting on a hundred tacks removing one isn't going to help very much. -- Sydney S. Baker

"A medicine ...is always directly hurtful; it may sometimes be indirectly beneficial. I firmly believe that if most of the pharmacopaeia were sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Surely the above quote is an overstatement of fact; or is it? I have a friend who quit his job as a pharmacist for $32 an hour and is now working as a truck driver for $14 an hour - because he had a conscience -- ds ) 


The dean of medicine at Brown University told a medical school graduating class, "Fifty percent of what we have taught you is wrong. Our problem is that we don't know which 50%." -- Dean David S. Greer


"I die by the help of too many physicians." -- Alexander the Great, 323 B.C
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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. --
Robert Orben


God who sends
 the wound sends the medicine. -
- Cervantes
 
Source: Don Quixote



The arrival of a good clown exercises more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. -- Thomas Lydenham (17th century physician)




"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
-- Thomas Jefferson



Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. -- Benjamin Rush, physician, Revolutionary war hero, and signer of the Declaration of Independence


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