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| In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~ Cicero |
| My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~ Plato |
| Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ~ C. Jeff Miller |
| In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~ Author Unknown |
| Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ~ Robert Burton |
| I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ~ James H. Boren |
| A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier’s office. ~ Francis O’Walsh |
Did God who gave us flowers and trees,
Also provide the allergies?
~ E.Y. Harburg |
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| I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~ Bill Walton |
| It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~ Thomas More, |
| I wondher why ye can always read a doctor’s bill an’ ye niver can read his purscription. ~ Finley Peter Dunne |
| You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax – tomorrow you’ll be afraid to cough. ~ Pearl Williams |
| To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit – Life!
~ Emily Dickinson |
| It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. ~ A. Benson Cannon |
| A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. ~ Author Unknown |
| One thousand Americans stop smoking every day – by dying. ~ Author Unknown |
| A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~ Voltaire |
| A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. ~ J.J. Walsh |
| Every disease is a physician. ~ Irish Proverb |
| God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. ~ George Herbert, |
| Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~ Norman Cousins |
| I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~ Henri Amiel |
| Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. ~ Don Herold |