668 Quotes About Illness

The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...

Without knowing the cause of illness, any treatment must be considered a guess.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.

I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with the kind of news I'd given Mr. Walters?

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...

08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions.08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day a washout; incredibly embarrassing, unprofessional; indescribable. Delete entire day.