Medical Quotes

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

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

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

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

Walking is man's best medicine.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.