Diamonds and pearls Quote by Irving Stone

“In all the medical dramas I’d ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on…

— Morgan Matson

“The doctor drummed the fingers of his left hand on the edge of the table, a strange gesture which suggested, Isabel thought, an impatient…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For…

— Erich Segal

“But notice all the conspicuous effort in this story. If Charles’s physicians had simply prescribed soup and bed rest, everyone might have questioned whether…

— Kevin Simler

“I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with…

— Samuel Shem

“The doctor came and prescribed opium for me. What a marvellous remedy for the pains of my experience!”

— Sadegh Hedayat

“The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.”

— St. Thomas Aquinas

“And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well…

— Louise Penny

“Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to…

— Irving Kirsch

“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.”

— William S. Wilson

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely”

— Leo Tolstoy

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi