#Medicine

"This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos."

"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting."

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind."

"She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.”“Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them."

"You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body."

"Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that."

"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."

"Is there a drug that will illuminate the mind and eliminate all the drugs the modern medical system will try to convince you that you need to take?"

"As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

"Don't lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called "failure"begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; "arise my soul and praise the Lord". Hope is the clothe piece in which wraps a healthy soul!"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

"Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing."

"It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now."

"I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries."

"The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise."

"It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country."

"You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted."