Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
