#medicine

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ↗

— Voltaire

#medicine #art

..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes of terror and confusion I felt standing powerless in her room served as a visceral reminder throughout my training... that the big picture isn't enough in medicine... ↗

— Lisa Sanders

#medicine #art

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#science #change

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#medicine #courage

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#doctors #health #death

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos? ↗

— Theresa Brown

#medicine #death

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. ↗

— Ann Wigmore

#life #medicine #nutrition #food

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders. ↗

— Emmet Densmore

#medicine #pharmacy #food

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#battle #conquest #honest #life #living

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#healing #medicine #surgeon #respect