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Tag: medicine, sickness

John H. Knowles

The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.

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When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

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Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

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Theodore Tronchin

In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.

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It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

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I came I saw I concurred.

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Wilfred Trotter

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

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We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.

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Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say ‘Not to be disabled.’ We accept our limitations.

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What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

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The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

medicine, sickness

Oliver Wendell Holmes

So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

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