Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HippocratesSwords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have been harassed by the syphilis of a courtier. War and conquest and that herd existence which is an accompaniment of what we call civilization have merely set the stage for these more powerful agents of human tragedy.
Hans ZinsserWherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
HippocratesTags: inspirational medicine
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul FarmerTags: wealth society capitalism poverty medicine
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
Luther BurbankTags: science happiness flowers medicine sunshine helpfulness
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
Terry PratchettTags: humor money medicine doctor
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
Atul GawandeTags: medicine
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Mario PuzoTags: medicine
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.
Lord ByronLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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