It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. William Osier

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates

No doctor is better than three. German Proverb

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. Martin H. Fischer

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. Elbert Hubbard

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. Jean-Martin Charcot

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. Franklin Pierce Adams

Medicines are not meat to live by. German Proverb

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Proverbs

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. Henry David Thoreau

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. Peter Mere Latham

Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession. Haven Emerson

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. John Brown

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. Cicero

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones. Max Lerner

Common sense is in medicine the master workman. Peter Latham

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. Norman Cousins

Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. Roul Turley

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity Hippocrates

There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Florence Nightingale

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. Chinese Proverb

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand Hippocrates

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. August Bier

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. Chinese Proverb

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donn

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life!Emily Dickinson

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding. Norman Cousins

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once, but when they camethey answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.' Hilaire Belloc

Tea is a cup of life. Author Unknown

O' peppermint tea -two delights per sipas steamy hot as passioncool as a wintry lake dipAstrid Alauda

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. Norman Cousins