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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. – African Proverb

Believe in the reasonable decency of the brethren; patients are not stolen — they run away. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs comprisin

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. – French Proverb

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. – Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

Idiopathic and idiotic have common stem. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. – Ecclesiasticus 38:4 (Bible)

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. – Ivan Illich

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897, spoken b

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. – Samuel J. Meltzer

Surgery is the cry of defeat in medicine. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. – A.B. Christie

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. – James B. Herrick

The specialist is too commonly hypertrophied in one direction and atrophied in all the rest. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. – Jim Carrey, 2009 November 20th tweet

Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe that we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra. – Terri Guillemets, “Getting by with a little help,” 1998

Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle. – David McCord, Perambulator Poems, 1941