Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.

Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.

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

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

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

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.