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 more quotes 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 sayings from John Cameron

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

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

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

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. 6 sayings 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 other 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 other quotes from Marcel Proust

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

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

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

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

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. 16 other 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 wisdom & wit from Enid Bagnold

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

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

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. 5 other quotes 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 thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

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

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. 68 other quotes 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 quotes 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 sayings from Anton Chekhov

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. 2 sayings 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 more wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Isaac Asimov

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. 29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer