Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. – Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. – Ovid
Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped off the human drama. You, as doctors, will be in a position to see the human race stark naked — not only physically, but mentally and morally as well. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. – Charles V. Chapin
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. – Chinese Proverb
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you: that action on your part which best conserves the interest of your patient. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. – Henri Amiel
When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient. – William Withey Gull
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician… – William Cullen (1710–1790), First Lines of the Practice of Physic
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. – Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
What a doctor wants… is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889 — spea
Asthma is a disease that has practically the same symptoms as passion except that with asthma it lasts longer. – Author Unknown
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. – German Proverb
No doctor is better than three. – German Proverb
Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. – Wilfrid G. Oakley
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. – Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875)
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. – Erma Bombeck
The purse of the patient often protracts his case. – Zimmermann
You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. – Alonzo Clark
