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"A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death but has no power over the sand in the hourglass." - Hester Lynch Piozzi, 12 Nov 1781
"Every physician must be rich in knowledge and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, for they will not mislead him." - Paracelsus 1493 - 1541
"It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health." - George Santayana 1863 - 1952
"Here, at whatever hour you come, you will find light and help and human kindness." - Albert Schweitzer 1875 - 1965 Inscribed on the lamp outside his jungle hospital at Lambarene
"To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibility of happiness." - Sir John Lubbock 1834 - 1913
"I will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment; I will abstain from harming or wronging any man by it." - Hippocrates 460 - 377 B.C.E.
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
"It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but it is not astonishing how badly he may do it." - Sir William Osler 1849 - 1919
"It is not always in the physician's power to cure the sick person." - Ovid 43 B.C.E. - 18 C.E.
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed." - Hippocrates
"Medicine is the most difficult of sciences and the most laborious of arts. It will task all your powers of body and mind if you are faithful to it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Young Practioner, 1871
"No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it." - Seneca, 4 B.C.E. - 65 C.E.
"When meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy for it, but instead a means of preventing it." - Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895
"That physician will hardly be thought very careful of the health of others who neglects his own." - Galen 129 - c. 199
"A good clinical teacher is himself a medical school." - Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 - 1894
"Every physician must be rich in knowledge and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, for they will not mislead him." - Paracelsus 1493 - 1541
"It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health." - George Santayana 1863 - 1952
"Here, at whatever hour you come, you will find light and help and human kindness." - Albert Schweitzer 1875 - 1965 Inscribed on the lamp outside his jungle hospital at Lambarene
"To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibility of happiness." - Sir John Lubbock 1834 - 1913
"I will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment; I will abstain from harming or wronging any man by it." - Hippocrates 460 - 377 B.C.E.
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
"It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but it is not astonishing how badly he may do it." - Sir William Osler 1849 - 1919
"It is not always in the physician's power to cure the sick person." - Ovid 43 B.C.E. - 18 C.E.
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed." - Hippocrates
"Medicine is the most difficult of sciences and the most laborious of arts. It will task all your powers of body and mind if you are faithful to it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Young Practioner, 1871
"No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it." - Seneca, 4 B.C.E. - 65 C.E.
"When meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy for it, but instead a means of preventing it." - Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895
"That physician will hardly be thought very careful of the health of others who neglects his own." - Galen 129 - c. 199
"A good clinical teacher is himself a medical school." - Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 - 1894
