Indian Medicine: Facts by Navtej

Around 600 B.C., more than a century before the great Greek physician ... Read more

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Navtej’s Garden of Quotes!

Here are some more Quotable Quotes from the "Navtej Kohli Garden of Quotes"

  • Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.  ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
  • Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.  ~Mortimer Collins
  • Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.  ~Martin H. Fischer
  • The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it.  You get paid for what you cure.  ~Martin H. Fischer
  • The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.  ~William Stewart Halsted
  • For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators.  But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam.  It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale.  ~Claire Todae

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“'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.  ~Ovid .” Read More Quotes