The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. – Elbert Hubbard
When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. – Nicholas de Belleville
I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. – Betsy Salkind
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. – Peter Mere Latham
In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. – Author Unknown
Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. – Jean-Martin Charcot, translated from French
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. – Alexander of Tralles
Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. – Author unknown
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. – August Bier
The patient has the right to accept your advice or to ignore it. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. – Arabic proverb
Treat the patient, not the Xray. – James M. Hunter
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. – Roul Turley
Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. – James Bryce (1838–1922)
Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. – John Brown
The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in his world. – Harvey Cushing
