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“The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the so...”
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”
“One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”
“The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.”
“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations...”
“Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.”
“Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.”
“I had seen that once before, bleeding water. A little baby I worked on as a resident in training. That poor kid had been shot as wellhis father had blasted away the top of his head with a shotgunan...”
“I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many peoplewho are neither medical professionals nor trans themselveswould want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformati...”
“At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced...”
“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their...”
“The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.”
“Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and main...”
“By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.”
“I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.”
“I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.”
“The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physic...”
“I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer...”
“I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.”
