Medicine Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

12 Medicine quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw’s brief foray into medicine packs a punch despite its modest size. Twelve pointed comments reveal his critical eye and flair for irony, making this a handy primer for anyone curious about his view on health and society.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that…

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the…

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They…

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result…

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and…

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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