Medicine Quotes

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

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
-Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
-James Bryce

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

"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
-John Fletcher

"Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own."
-Gerhard Kocher

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."
-Sir William Osler

"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."
-Thomas S. Szasz

"In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use."
-Dr. Sara Murray Jordan

"Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors."
-Gerhard Kocher

"Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine."
-Gerhard Kocher

"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."
-Edward Everett Hale

"Regimen is superior to medicine."
-Voltaire

"A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
-Thomas A. Edison

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
-Thomas A. Edison

"I say it was half divine intervention and half medicine. That way I'm not pissing anybody off."
-Mark Hynek

"It's amazing what modern medicine has done."
-Roxanne Steele

"Pharmacists in the state of Vermont deserve our gratitude. They've extended their faith, good will and free medicine. But we can't continue to depend upon their good will and faith."
-Joshua Slen

"They wouldn't be able to afford it - it would be a choice between eating and taking medicine if we didn't give them samples."
-Dr. Joe Vetrano

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
-Sir William Osler

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
-Lord Byron

"The fact that a physician is disciplined does not make them a bad doctor. They can be practicing a very high quality of medicine, very competent, and yet can be disciplined for a number of issues."
-Thomas Reardon

"Their target on this home invasion robbery was the medicine that this victim was on."
-Anita Shell

"I went through intake and I went through the health department to see what kind of help me and my daughter (can get) and what type of medicine they can get for us."
-Keisha White

"It's not what doctors do. Basically, it turns medicine upside down."
-Dr. Kenneth Stevens

"There are many people who don't have access to the free medicine."
-Hu Jia

"When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man."
-Shaquille O'neal