#medicine

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#does #go #medicine #patients #sails

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#medicine #science #science

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#medicine #medicine

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#society #the-colossus-of-maroussi #wisdom-of-silence #medicine

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#being #difficulty #doctor #get #horizontal

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. ↗

— Lord Byron

#cheap #laugh #medicine #you

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#medical #medicine #never #novels #operation

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#bad #bad thing #doctors #media #medicine

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

— Voltaire

#art #consists #cures #disease #medicine