Medical Aphorisms

Medical Aphorisms

■ Good judgment comes from experience;experience comes from bad judgment.

——Dr.Kerr L.White

■ It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than to know what sort of disease has a patient.

——Dr.William Osler

■ The greatest ignorance is the conceit that a man knows what he does not know.

——Dr.William Osler

■ Specialist:a person who knows more and more，about less and less.

——Dr.William J.Mayo

■ One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity，for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

——Dr.Francis W.Peabody

■ In teaching the medical student，the primary requisite is keeping him awake.

——Dr.Chevalier Jackson

■ There is no more contradiction between the science of medicine and the art of medicine than in the science of aeronautics and the art of flying.

——Dr.Francis W.Peabody

■ If your only tool is a hammer，everything looks like a nail.

——Dr.William Halstead

■ Confidence and hope do more good than medicine.

——Galen

■ The lesser the indication，the greater the complication.

——Dr.William Halstead

■ Life is short，and Art long;the crisis fleeting;experience perilous，and decision difficult.The physician must not only bepreparedtodowhatisrighthimself，butalsotomakethepatient，theattendants，andexternalscooperate.

——Hippocrates

■ It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than to know what sort of disease has a patient.

——Dr.William Osler

■ No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.

——Hippocrates

■ The practice of medicine is an art，not a trade;a calling，not a business;a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

——Dr.William Osler

■ There is no more contradiction between the science of medicine and the art of medicine than in the science of aeronautics and the art of flying.

——Dr.Francis W.Peabody

■ There are some patients whom we cannot help;there are none whom we cannot harm.

——Dr.A.L.Bloomfield

■ The most valuable payment a patient can offer a physician is trust.

——Anonymous

■ Eat not to dullness;drink not to elevation.

——Benjamin Franklin

■ If you want to help your patients deal with their stress，you＇re going to have to learn to handle your own.

——Dr.Matthew Budd