Quotes about Medicine

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

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

All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

We have artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D-printing, robotics and nanotechnology that have changed the face of modern medicine. It is essential for Indian doctors to familiarise themselves with the latest developments to be able to control technology and not the other way around.

The heart of man is the same in every age. The spiritual medicine which it requires is always the same.

Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils.--They were the school of God, in which He trains the children of grace for glory--the medicines which are needful to purify our corrupt wills--the furnace which must burn away our dross--the knife which must cut the ties that bind us to the world.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

Today we expect but one thing from our doctors: to make us better. The medieval doctor was trying to do a lot more than that. He was taking care of the soul as well as the body. Unlike modern doctors he did not try to stop a patient dying at all costs . . . rather, if death seemed inevitable, he was duty-bound to try and help him or her die in the best possible way for their immortal soul.