Wherever a doctor cannot do go...

Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

~Hippocrates~

When you hear hoofbeats, think...

When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses before zebras.

~Harley S. Smyth~

When we are sick our virtues a...

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

~Vauvenargues~

What some call health, if purc...

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860~

What is dangerous about tranqu...

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

~Max Lerner~

We firmly believe that therapy...

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

~Arnold Lazarus~

We are usually the best men wh...

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

~English proverb~

Vasectomy means not ever havin...

Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.

~Larry Adler~

Tranquillizers do not change o...

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

~Indra Devi~

To cure sometimes, to relieve ...

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

~Anonymous~

To be sick is to enjoy monarch...

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

~Charles Lamb~

Those in the United States who...

Those in the United States who, by and large, have the best medical care and advice readily available to them at the least expense are the families of the specialists in internal medicine. These families use less medicine and undergo less surgery on the whole than any other group, rich or poor.

~Edward C. Lambert~

There is some reason to believ...

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

~Samuel Bard~

There is a great difference be...

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

~Arthur Young~

There are some remedies worse ...

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

~Publilius Syrus~

The tongue ever turns to the a...

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

~Proverbs~

The student is to collect and ...

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

~Abraham Flexner~

The sorrow which has no vent i...

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

~Henry Maudsley~

The prime goal is to alleviate...

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

~Christian Barnard~

The practice of medicine is a ...

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

~Martin H. Fisher~