Clouds Quote by William James Mayo

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the…

— Petr Skrabanek

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another,…

— William Osler

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to…

— Archie Fire Lame Deer

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average…

— Dave deBronkart

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission…

— Michael Sandel

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.”

— Peter D. Kramer

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised…

— William Osler

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

— Ovid

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having…

— Francis Bacon

“The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense…

— Adolf Meyer