245 quotes found
“Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.”
“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”
“Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.”
“Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.”
“The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.”
“Isnt it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?”
“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible in...”
“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. ”
“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”
“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. Th...”
“Good medicine always tastes bad.”
“The patient is the one with the disease”
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse”
“Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only human ourselves. We a...”
“On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men t...”
“Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.”
“All bleeding eventually stops.”
“The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.”
“I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all...”
“Doctors is all swabs.”
