These medical quotes will inspire you. Medical, of, relating to or concerned with physicians or the practice of medicine or relating to the science of medicine, or to the treatment of illness and injuries.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging medical quotes, medical sayings, and medical proverbs.
Best Medical Quotes
- “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.” ~ Ivan Illich
- “The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books” ~ Paracelsus
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“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.” ~ Hippocrates
- “I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.” ~ Rita Rudner
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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” ~ Voltaire
- “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” ~ William Osler
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“Caring is the essence of nursing.” ~ Jean Watson
- “A little rebellion now and then… is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “You may not be able to read a doctor’s handwriting and prescription, but you’ll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.” ~ Earl Wilson
- “Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.” ~ Katherine Dunn
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“Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he’s even worse than my brother-in-law.” ~ Karl A. Menninger
- “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.” ~ Bill Frist
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“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” ~ William Osler
- “Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.” ~ Jack Kevorkian
- “To live long, live slowly.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.” ~ Michael J. Fox
- “A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.” ~ William Osler
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“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” ~ Alice James
- “Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.” ~ Robert Trout
- “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.” ~ William Osler
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“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.” ~ Paul Tournier
- “Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.” ~ Ovid
- “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
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“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “I don’t believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.” ~ Christiaan Barnard , Medical quotes about life
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“When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.” ~ Hippocrates , Medical quotes love
- “Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.” ~ Karl Marx
- “I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?” ~ Jay London
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“The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.” ~ Samuel James Meltzer
- “People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.” ~ Martha Beck
- “A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.” ~ Denis Diderot
- “Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.” ~ Charles Schumer
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“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.” ~ Peter Shaffer
- “The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.” ~ Lewis Thomas , Medical quotes doctors
- “But what physician has not had patients who don’t make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they’re our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.” ~ Walker Percy
- “Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.” ~ Hippocrates
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“Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.” ~ Henry Ford
- “Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God’s intervention in a person’s life.” ~ Paul Tournier
- “You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.” ~ Alonzo M. Clark
- “It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.” ~ Samuel Hopkins Adams , Medical quotes profession
- “Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.” ~ William Osler
