Quotes about Medicine

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.