Medical

The field of Western medicine has seemingly become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines? – Terri Guillemets, “Prescribed,” 2004

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. – William Stewart Halsted, “The Effect of Ligation of the Common Iliac Artery on t

The public blabbers about preventive medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

My physician has become warden of my medically imprisoned body, pharmaceuticals the bars on my cell. – Grey E. Livingston, 2004

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. – Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832), Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Add

Let your entrance into the sick room decrease, not increase, the irritability of your patient. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The minister sees them half undressed; the doctor sees them naked. They lie to the minister; they masquerade before the lawyer; they cannot deceive the discerning physician. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. – Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. – Plato