Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

medical

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. 16 sayings from Henny Youngman

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. 3 quotes from Edward Everett Hale

Medical physics is an applied area of physics. 6 views from John Cameron

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958. 6 more quotes from John Cameron

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. 6 more sayings from John Cameron

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. 6 views from John Cameron

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. 6 quotes from John Cameron

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. 18 quotes from Marcel Proust

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. 2 quotes from Alice James

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. 3 wisdom & wit from Samuel Wilson

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. 10 thoughts from Taylor Caldwell

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. 16 views from Denis Diderot

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. 2 more thoughts from Enid Bagnold

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. 3 thoughts from P. G. Wodehouse

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. 29 views from Groucho Marx

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. 5 other wisdom & wit from Michael Landon

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. 33 more wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. 29 more quotes from Groucho Marx

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. 2 more quotes from Daniel Nathans

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. 3 other sayings from Abbie Hoffman

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. 3 thoughts from Ty Cobb

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. 68 thoughts from Samuel Butler

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. 19 other quotes from Anton Chekhov

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. 2 quotes from Timothy Murphy

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. 19 other thoughts from Anton Chekhov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. 16 sayings from Isaac Asimov

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. 33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. 33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. 29 other sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer