Humor Quote by Volney Steele

“Several years ago, I realized that I didn’t want to spend all my life in medicine. It had me in a sort of spiritual…

— Richard S. Weeder

“Medicine--and particularly hospital medicine, which lives in a sea of human suffering--has a way of beating callowness out of even the most self-possessed youth.”

— Charles Krauthammer

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems…

— Tracy Kidder

“We expect brilliance from the pulpit, but often accept mediocrity in our souls.”

— Barna Group

“Good medicine always tastes bad.”

— Ron Hall

“Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.”

— Georgette Heyer

“One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of…

— Oscar Wilde

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the…

— Samuel Johnson

“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”

— Richard Diaz

“If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Hell, you ought to go see a doctor, Dad," I told him. "You probably just need some kind of pep-up medicine. Why do you…

— Larry McMurtry