John of Salisbury c.–
English churchman, philosopher, and scholar
The common people say, that physicians are the
class of people who kill other men in the most
polite and courteous manner.
PolicraticusBk II, Ch.
Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
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English statesman and author
Doctors are a social cement.
Attributed
William T. Salter –
US physician and pharmacologist
As he picks up his beautiful new tool, however, it
is well for the modern biologist to remind himself
how subtly and completely a fascination for
gadgets can betray sound sense.
Science: ()
H. Sanfey
Contemporary US surgeon, University of Virginia
Today’s trainees have different values and demand
a more balanced lifestyle than those who believed
the only thing wrong with every other night-call
was that you missed half the good cases.
British Journal of Surgery: –()
George Santayana –
Spanish-born US philosopher and poet
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a
predicament.
Articles and Essays
Science is nothing but developed perception,
interpreted intent, common sense rounded out
and minutely articulated.
The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy
the interval.
Soliloquies in England, ‘War Shrines’
Santorio Santorio –
Italian physician, Capodistria, and inventor of the clinical
thermometer
Obviously this method I have discovered is of great
importance, since it enables us to ascertain the
precise amount of that insensible perspiration
interference which, according to Hippocrates and
Galen, is the cause of all diseases.
Quoted in The Great Doctors—A Biographical History of
Medicine, Henry E. Sigerist. W. W. Norton and Co.,
New York ()
Dame Cicely Saunders –
Pioneering UK palliative care physician
Approaches to death and dying reveal much of
the attitude of society as a whole to the
individuals who compose it. The development of
ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be
traced to prehistory.
Foreword in The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine.
Oxford University Press, Oxford ()
The old acceptance of destiny has gone, and a
new sense of outrage that modern advances
cannot finally halt the inevitable makes care
of the dying and their families demanding
and often difficult, but perhaps all the more
rewarding.
Foreword in The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine.
Oxford University Press, Oxford ()Frederick Saunders –
English-born US author and librarian, New York
Empirics and charlatans are the excrescences of
the medical profession.
Salad for the Social‘The Mysteries of Medicine’
The best practitioners give to their patients the
least medicine.
Attributed
The language of the men of medicine is a fearful
concoction of sesquipedalian words, numbered by
thousands.
AttributedGirolamo Savonarola –
Italian religious and political reformer
The physician that bringeth love and charity to
the sick, if he be good and kind and learned and
skilful, none can be better than he.
AttributedDorothy L. Sayers –
British crime writer
If accidents happen and you are to blame, take
steps to avoid repetition of same.
In the Teeth of the Evidence‘Bitter Almonds’Earle P. Scarlett –?
Medical historian
Integrity and rectitude in our profession are
paramount.
Archives of Internal Medicine: ()Richard Schatzki –?
German-born US radiologist
The eyes must finish their work before the gray
cells take over.
Clinical Aphorisms from the Harvard Medical School
‘Medicine’ ()R. Schaus
Contemporary US surgeon
Surgery is the endeavor where intellect and
dexterity meet at the highest level in the creation
of a peerless human accomplishment.
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