890 Quotes About Medicine

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Possibility is everything that has ever happened. The purpose of science is to find out where the limits of possibility end. When we have achieved that — and we shall — there will be no more magic, no more superstition, there will just be what is. Once it was impossible that this globe we are on wasn't flat. It is not for science — and certainly not for medicine — to flatter our expectations of Nature. Quite the opposite.

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Still, when you work in a hospital, the papers you file aren't just papers: they are fragments of narratives filled with risks & triumphs.

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.