36 Medical Quotes (to understand doctors)

A compilation of famous aphorisms and quotes about the science of health and diseases.

Medicine has been researching for centuries the diseases that we humans suffer from to try to prevent and cure them with vaccines and increasingly effective treatments. In fact, diseases that devastated entire continents in the past, such as the Black Death, left Europe with less than half of its population.

With successive scientific advances, many diseases have been able to find a cure or an effective treatment, which has meant that in the last century life expectancy has increased significantly.

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Medicine Phrases (and aphorisms).

Hundreds of doctors and researchers have left us an incomparable legacy. To pay tribute to this profession, we have prepared a selection of the best phrases about Medicine by doctors and researchers of all times.

1. The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. (William Osler)

Great famous phrase, perhaps one of the most reproduced, that teaches us the way to be a professional physician.

2. Time is usually the best physician. (Ovid)

The Roman poet, in a reflection on the healing properties of letting time pass.

3. Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. (William Osler)

Each patient is a different story, and the effectiveness of medicine is based on statistical study.

4. Medications are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. (Norman Cousins)

On pharmacology, sometimes overdrawn.

5. Where medicine cannot reach, no one can. But hope can be therapeutic. (Francis Castel)

Positive mood is vital.

6. Seeking a doctor without the will to be cured is like trying to fish in a puddle. (Juan Armando Corbin)

A reflection on the importance of wanting to survive.

7. Patience is the best medicine. (John Florio)

A quality that pushes us to heal our body and mind.

8. Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything else since the advent of antibiotics. (Ron Reagan)

On the scientific and medical revolution in the making.

9. Let your food be your only medicine. (Hippocrates)

Good nutritional basics are key to keeping our health in top shape.

10. The art of medicine consists in keeping the patient in good spirits while nature cures him. (Voltaire)

Humility and perseverance; that is what medicine is based on.

11. Work! If you don't need it for food, you need it for medicine. (William Penn)

Work dignifies, and maybe even cures.

12. The best physician is he who knows the uselessness of most medicines. (Benjamin Franklin)

A curious reflection from one of the founders of the United States.

13. Everything is possible -he had said-. We are not gods, we do not know everything. -And he had added: the deep coma is a mystery for medicine. (Marc Levy)

Certainly, it is a state about which little is known.

14. Science and medicine deal with the body, while philosophy deals with the mind and soul, as necessary to a physician as food and air. (Noah Gordon)

Excerpt from the book The Doctor.

15. There is only one medicine, and it is effective when it has scientific evidence to back it up. (J.M. Mulet)

Medical phrase from the Spanish researcher and lecturer.

16. Medicine is the art of disputing the men to the death of today, to yield them in a better state, a little later. (Noel Clarasó)

An ironic reflection on what is to come.

17. Those who seek do more for medicine than those who conclude. (Ángeles Mastretta)

On the scientific spirit that should be the basis of medical activity.

18. It would be fantastic if the physician had the possibility of experimenting on himself with different medicines. He would understand the action of medicines in a very different way. (Mikhail Bulgakov)

A critical view of pharmacology.

19. I consider medicine a priesthood, like being a spiritual pastor. Asking a sick person for money in order to heal him is a bit like saying: the purse or life. (Patrick Deville)

On the infamous health care system in some countries, such as the United States.

20. Words are a medicine for the suffering soul. (Aeschylus)

A caring friend or family member is always comforting and helps us recover.

21. Medicine is the art of accompanying the grave with Greek words. (Enrique Poncela)

A great and ironic phrase of medicine.

22. Medicine is the art of preserving health and eventually curing the disease occurring in the body. (Avicenna)

Prevent before curing.

23. I die because of the help of too many physicians. (Alexander the Great)

Too many cures can be stressful and lead to poorer health.

24. Medicine has prolonged our life, but it has not given us a good reason to go on living. (Miguel Delibes)

A great reflection of the Spanish writer.

25. Doctors like beer, the older the better. (Thomas Fuller)

Experience endows them with wisdom.

26. Doctors cut, burn, torture. And by doing to the sick a good, which seems more like evil, they demand a reward they hardly deserve. (Heraclitus)

Great medical phrase that comes to us from Ancient Greece.

27. Who decides when doctors disagree? (Alexander Pope)

A mystery that is hidden in the back room of hospitals.

28. Almost all physicians have their favorite diseases. (Henry Fielding)

Like any professional, there are some things that arouse their interest more than others.

29. Doctors kill and live by killing, and the complaint falls on the ailment. (Francisco de Quevedo)

An openly negative view of the medical profession.

30. The progress of medicine brings us the end of that liberal age in which man could still die of what he wanted. (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

Reflection on the development of this applied science.

31. Doctors are not for that; their mission is to prescribe and to charge; whether they cure or not is up to the patient. (Molière)

Another criticism of health professionals.

32. The best medicine is an always joyful spirit. (Solomon)

Another medical phrase that emphasizes the importance of positive mood.

33. When a medicine does no harm we should rejoice and not also demand that it does some good. (Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais)

A skeptical view of the therapeutic properties of medicine.

34. Magicians can accomplish more by faith than physicians can by truth. (Giordano Bruno)

The Italian philosopher and poet did not have much confidence in medicine either.

35. Medicine can only cure curable diseases. (Chinese proverb)

Miracles, unfortunately, do not exist.

36. Medicine cures, nature heals. (Latin proverb)

A valuable and useful distinction to improve our lives.