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Medical Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word…
- Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
- The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most…
- Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would…
- The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible…
More Medical Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck