John Steinbeck Quotes

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.

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

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

I got the pumps It aint got medicine

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.