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Greatest Quotes to learn from

Here are some notable quotes about medicine:

  1. "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire

  2. "The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it." - Hippocrates

  3. "Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability." - William Osler

  4. "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

  5. "The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals – if not, it may even be counterproductive." - Patch Adams

  6. "Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity." - Hippocrates

  7. "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale." - Rudolf Virchow

  8. "The doctor's duty is not only to alleviate the patient's physical pain but also to provide comfort and solace in times of emotional and spiritual distress." - Dr. Patch Adams

  9. "Medicine is only for those who cannot imagine doing anything else." - Dr. Luanda Grazette

  10. "Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided." - Paracelsus

  11. "The physician should not treat the disease, but the patient who is suffering from it." - Maimonides

  12. "Medicine is a science of observation, a science of listening, and a science of compassion." - Unknown

  13. "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease." - William Osler

  14. "To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always." - Hippocrates

  15. "The best medicine is the care of the patient." - Francis W. Peabody

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