Quotes on Practice Of Medicine

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

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.