medicine-for-doctors

Not joking.

You cannot find better medicine for doctors.
The Father of Clinical Medicine, Sir William Osler (1849 – 1919)said:

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

From Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

How happy would Sir William Osler be to find
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Share this joy with your friends.
Joy is a good medicine and free too.

Read on to find more medicine for doctors coming from

• Lord Byron,
• Napolean Bonapate,
• Voltaire,
• Hippocrates

1. 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) “Science and Scientism”
2. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
   Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
3. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
   Sir William Osler (1849 – 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
4. [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
   Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)
   [Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations]
5. Walking is man’s best medicine.
   Hippocrates (460 BC – 377 BC)

   He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays – cynical, but hopeful.
   Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 – 1958), Crewe Train, 1926

6. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
   Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)

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