#medicine

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. ↗

— Richard M. Sherman

#go #helps #just #medicine #spoonful

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

#business #dentistry #distinct #engineering #ethics

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#gone #health #industry #knowledge #lost

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#art #exercise #learned #medicine #only

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#am #confidently #died #disease #gout

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#insignificant #medicine #merit #nothing

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

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#atlanta #audience #boston #ceremonial #dance