Medical quotes of the day

"Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party."
Jeremy Cronin

"A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer

"The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction."
Alfred Adler

"Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is."
Norman Cousins

"I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you."
Bill Watson

"It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class."
Annonymous

"It takes five years to learn when to operate and twenty years to learn when not to."
Anonymous

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
Martin H Fischer

"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
Anton Chekhov

"For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale."
Claire Todae

"No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself."
Chinese proverb

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."
Michael J fox

"I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it."
Christiaan Barnard

"Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone."
Jan King

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."
Benjamin Franklin

"Treat the patient, not the X-ray."
James M. Hunter

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