Famous Medical Quotes in English with Images

Let's not kid ourselves.  Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves.  Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint.  However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educated the masses not to take medicine.