“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.” — William Owens Copy Share Image
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of… — D. C. Jarvis Copy Share Image
“After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
When a person survives Ebola, when they recover, they're not a carrier of the virus. — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps… — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
“There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves and that has the potential to destroy our species or… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It'll be sad not to be Doctor Who anymore because that's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go,… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines… — William Davis Copy Share Image
“Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the… — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image
A doctor can't just come out and play because he's smart and understands the game on paper. He can dissect the hell… — Davante Adams Copy Share Image
“even when a political truth is enshrined in written documents, it is seldom that these have any more value than a radiographic… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a… — Otto Preminger Copy Share Image
“Make your visits short, especially to the sick. To visit too often is tiresome to your friends, and to visit too rarely… — John Wortabet Copy Share Image
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
