Medicine Quotes

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

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.

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

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

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.