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Monday, February 28, 2011

Top 10 Medical Quotations of the Week


"Nothing is more fatal to health than over care of it."
~ Ben Franklin

"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow."
~ Dr. Alexis Carrol

"I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you."
~ Bill Walton

"Treat the patient, not the X-ray."
~ James M. Hunter

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."
~ Abe Lemons

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."
~ William Osler

"Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish."
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz

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

"The peculiar thing in medicine is that we never believe anything
unless it can be demonstrated in animals."
~ John A. Schindler, M.D.

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