#medici

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 Szasz

#formerly #magic #medicine #men #mistake

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#masquerading #medicine #psychiatric #testimony

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #healing #illness #medicine #nothing

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#bush #bush administration #disturbing #find #greatly

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#during #engineering #felt #get #glamorous

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#both #clinic #come #desire #disciplined

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese

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

— William Osler

#educate #first #masses #medicine #physician

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#poverty #rights #science #science

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#science