More quotations tagged with “medicine”
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
—Jewish Proverb
Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.
—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
—Alice James
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
—Dave Barry