Fashionable Quote by Thomas Jefferson

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one…

— Erasmus Darwin

“A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

— John Steinbeck

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

— Publilius Syrus

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

— Ovid

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out…

— Alice Tisdale Hobart

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling,…

— Maxim Gorky

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art…

— Andreas Vesalius

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

— Voltaire