A little rebellion now and then… is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced. Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
God help the patient.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
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?
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.