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  • Truth in medicine is an unattainable goal, and the art as described in books is far beneath the knowledge of an experienced and thoughtful physician.
    * Al-Razi


  • The remedy is worse than the disease.
    * Francis Bacon


  • There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
    * Bernard Mannes Baruch


  • Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
    * Samuel Butler


  • Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
    * Hippocrates


  • Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
    * Hippocrates


  • Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
    * Elizabeth Kenny


  • We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
    * Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


  • All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
    * Thomas Mann


  • Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
    * Ovid


  • Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
    * Paracelsus


  • Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.
    * Henry E. Sigerist


  • A man is as old as his arteries.
    * Thomas Sydenham


  • Medical education is not completed at the medical school: it is only begun.
    * William H. Welch