Quotations

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

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment.
Author Unknown

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.
Martin H. Fischer

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
Martin H. Fischer

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

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.
William Withey Gull

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

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
Chinese Proverb

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I


Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
Ron Reagan

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
William J. Mayo


Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

The heart has no wrinkles.
Marie de Sevigne


Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day - they make a difference every day!
Author Unknown

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker