World Medical Association
I will maintain the utmost respect for human life
from the time of conception.
Declaration of Geneva()
If at all possible, consistent with patient
psychology, the doctor should obtain the patient’s
freely given consent after the patient has been
given a full explanation.
Declaration of Helsinki()
Almroth Wright –
British immunologist, St. Mary’s Hospital, London
Microbial infections are conveniently divided into
septicaemias and intoxications. In the case of the
former the bacteria multiply freely in the blood
and produce their poisons there. In the latter case
the micro-organisms do not proliferate in the
blood.
British Medical Journali: ()
Frank Lloyd Wright –
US architect
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the
architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
New York Times MagazineOctober ()
Carl August Wunderlich –
German Professor of Medicine, Leipzig
Latter-day medicine recognises its tasks and its
duties as part of the immeasurably extensive and
sublime science of nature. We know in addition
that genuine facts and trustworthy data are solely
attainable by means of the strictest attention to
the methods of investigation and through
continually bearing in mind the possible sources
of fallacy.
Vienna and ParisConcluding paragraphs ()
A knowledge of the course of temperature in
disease is indispensable to medical practitioners.
The temperature can neither be feigned nor
falsified.
Preface to Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature
(1871)
Leon R.Yankwich –
US judge
There are no illegitimate children—only
illegitimate parents.
Decision in Zipkin v. Mozon, California, June ()
Yiddish proverb
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.
Francis Brett Young –
English novelist and physician
Half the patients who get you up in the middle of
the night and think they are dying are suffering
from wind!
Dr. Bradley Remembers()
It was a son’s duty to see his father into the grave.
Far Forestp. . Heinemann Ltd. London ()Henry Youngman –
I was so ugly when I was born, the doctor slapped
my mother.
A one liner quoted in the British Press from this
contemporary comedian at time of his deathGaspar Zavala y Zamora ?–
The doctor says there is no hope, and as he does
the killing he ought to know.
El Triunfo del Amor y de la AmistadII. Zeno of Elea 5th centuryBC
Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears,
that we may hear twice as much as we speak.
FragmentsVIZeta (Sir (Vincent)Zachary Cope
–)
Surgeon, St. Mary’s Hospital, London
The diagnostic problem of to-day
Has greatly changed—the change has come to
stay;
We all have to confess, though with a sigh
On complicated tests we much rely
And use too little hand and ear and eye.
The Acute Abdomen in RhymePreface. H. K. Lewis ()
Acute abdominal disease
Is sometimes diagnosed with ease
But oft the best attempts will meet
With sad and sorrowful defeat.
The Acute Abdomen in Rhymep. Preface. H. K. Lewis
()
Not every acute abdomen requires
Immediate operation for its cure
And each good surgeon eagerly desires
To make the needs for operation fewer.
The Acute Abdomen in Rhymep. Preface. H. K. Lewis,
London ()Hans Zinsser –
US bacteriologist
To the average professional officer, the military
doctor is an unwillingly tolerated noncombatant
who takes sick call, gives cathartic pills, makes
transportation troubles, complicates tactical
plans, and causes the water to smell bad.
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