Medicine Quotes

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

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• Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Journey, Men, Disease And Death

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

  Thomas A. Edison

  Exercise, Doctors, Air

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• It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

  William Osler

  Health, Practice Of Medicine, Important

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• What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

  Hippocrates

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Doctors, Entrepreneur

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• Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Nursing, Umpires

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• The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

  William Osler

  Art, Practice Of Medicine, Calling

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.13, Duke University Press

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• The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

  William Osler

  Health, Disease, Medical Profession

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• The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Health, Restoration, Way

  Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

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• He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hope, Physicians, Medical

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3340, Delphi Classics

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• The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine, Physicians, Disease

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• There is no medicine like hope.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hope

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

  William Osler

  Art, Science, Medical

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press

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• Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

  Paracelsus

  Life, Art, Health

  Die grosse Wundarznei

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• The best doctor gives the least medicines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

  William Osler

  Life, Health, Law

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

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• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  Karl Marx

  Doubt, Disease, Medical

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• It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

  Katharine Kolcaba

  Life, Health, Nursing

  Katharine Kolcaba (2003). “Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research”, p.20, Springer Publishing Company

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• A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.

  William Davis

  Years, Littles, Rooms

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• Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

  Deepak Chopra

  Body, Modern, Instinct

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fitness, Health, Physicians

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