To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

Love, it’ll make you feel better before it’ll make you feel worse. So it’s like inverse medicine.

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the othe

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.

Cualquier enfermedad introduce una duplicidad en la vida: un "ello", con sus propias necesidades, exigencias y limitaciones.

A hotel is a temporary aquarium for people. That’s why I travel with a fishing pole, and erectile dysfunction medicine.

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

Dans ce monde fort confus, il y a quelques prescriptions assez claires, dit le philosophe. J'ai pour métier de soigner.