Remy de Gourmont –
French novelist, poet, and critic
Before undergoing a surgical operation arrange
your temporal affairs—you may live.
Attributed
William Gilbert (‘W. G .’) Grace
–
Cricketer and doctor
Medicine is my hobby, cricket is my profession.
Attributed
Evarts Ambrose Graham –
US thoracic surgeon
In many respects surgery is like music, which has
its great artists and its great composers. The
musical artists are like the great surgeons. They
often perform before large audiences with great
technical skill, and they have large incomes.
Attributed
Harvey Graham –
English physician
Venus found herself a goddess
In a world controlled by gods,
So she opened up her bodice
And evened up the odds.
A Doctor’s LondonCh.
Robert James Graves –
Irish physician
He fed fevers.
Epitaph suggested by Graves himself after emphasizing
nutrition in sick patients
From the very commencement the student should
set out to witness the progress and effects of
sickness and ought to persevere in the daily
observation of disease during the whole period of
his studies.
Introductory Lectures ()
Greek proverb
A blind man leaned against a wall; ‘This is the
boundary of the world’, he said.
Major Greenwood?
Do not forget there is a research laboratory
greater even than the Cavendish, the streets,
the homes, the factories in which common people
pass their lives—there is the laboratory of him
who adds to our knowledge of social medicine.
Quoted by J. Pemberton in ‘Will Pickles of Wensleydale Bles,
London ()
Germaine Greer –
Australian-born writer and feminist
The management of fertility is one of the most
important functions of adulthood
Attributed
Alan Gregg –
US physician, Rockefeller Institute
Be sparing of criticism, since the habit of trivial
comment weakens the force of real protest.
The Difficult Art of Givingby Wilder Penfield
Our national inclination is to suffer children
gladly, prolong adolescence patiently, and
deliberately defer maturity.
Scientific Monthly: , ()
A good education should leave much to be desired.
AttributedJames Gregory –
Scottish physician
Young men kill their patients; old men let
them die.
Horae Subsecivae‘Locke & Sydenham’Sir John Grugeon –
Health administrator
Doctors are and should be natural leaders and
part of the skill of being a leader is to work with
the other leaders in the intricate network of the
National Heath Service.
Hospital DoctorJuly ()Arthur Guiterman –
US poet
Don’t tell your friends about your indigestions:
‘How are you!’ is a greeting, not a question.
A Poet’s Proverbs‘Of Tact’Sir William Withey Gull –
British physician, Guy’s Hospital, London
The jejunum is more exempt from morbid
conditions than any other portion of the
alimentary canal.
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports: ()Diseases are but parts of a course of natural
history.
British Medical Journal: ()
The road to medical knowledge is through the
pathological museum and not through an
apothecary’s shop.
AttributedNever forget that it is not a pneumonia, but
a pneumonic man who is your patient.
Attributed
Nursing, sometimes a trade, sometimes
a profession, ought to be a religion.
Attributed
Savages explain, science investigates.
Attributed
I do not say no drugs are useful, but there is not
enough discrimination in their use.
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