Béla Schick –
Austrian paediatrician
The human body is like a bakery with a thousand
windows. We are looking into only one window of
the bakery when we are investigating one
particular aspect of a disease.
Aphorisms and Facetiae of Béla Schick‘Early Years’ (I. J. Wolf )
Children are not simply micro-adults, but have
their own specific problems.
Aphorisms and Facetiae of Béla Schick‘Early Years’ (I. J. Wolf)
First the patient, second the patient, third the
patient, fourth the patient, fifth the patient, and
then maybe comes science. We first do everything
for the patient; science can wait, research can
wait.
Aphorisms and Facetiae of Béla Schick‘Early Years’ (I. J. Wolf)
It is too bad that we cannot cut the patient in
half in order to compare two regimens of
treatment.
Aphorisms and Facetiae of Béla Schick‘Early Years’ (I. J. Wolf)
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of
medicine is like heart muscle contraction – it’s all
or none.
Aphorisms and Facetiae of Béla Schick‘Early Years’ (I. J. Wolf)
The physician’s best remedy is Tincture of Time!
Aphorisms and Facetiae of Béla Schick‘Early Years’ (I. J. Wolf)
Johann Christoph Friedrich von
Schiller –
German poet, philosopher, and physician
All significant diseases, especially those issuing
from a malignancy of the abdomen, are heralded
by a greater or lesser upheaval of personality.
Prosaïsche Schriften(Erste Periode)
Johann Lukas Schönlein –
German-born Zurich physician
We return to those foundations, to those pillars
from which medicine started. The natural sciences
are to serve as our guides and to show how
observations must be made in order to gather
experience and to elaborate this into facts.
Quoted in The Great Doctors—A Biographical History of
Medicine, Henry E. Sigerist. Dover Publications, New York
() (original W. W. Norton and Co. Ltd, )
Charles M. Schulz –
US cartoonist
I love mankind—it’s people I can’t stand.
Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown
Albert Schweitzer –
French Protestant theologian and medical missionary
Here, at whatever hour you come, you will find
light and help and human kindness.
Inscribed on the lamp outside his jungle hospital at
Lambaréné
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even
death himself.
On the Edge of the Primeval ForestCh.
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show
compassion and the will to help others.
The Schweitzer Album
It is our duty to remember at all times and anew
that medicine is not only a science, but also the
art of letting our own individuality interact with
the individuality of the patient.Sir Walter Scott –
Scottish author
There is no harder worker in all Scotland, and
none more poorly requited, than the village
doctor, unless perhaps it be his horse.
The Surgeon’s DaughterCh. Scottish proverb
He that eats but one dish seldom needs the doctor.Roger Scruton –
Professor of philosophy and author
The hunt has run its course, and the fox will die.
His death will be quick—quicker by far than the
death of a mouse in the paws of a cat, of a rat in
the jaws of a terrier or of a human in the hands of
his doctor.
On Huntingp. . Yellow Jersey Press, London ()Frank Scully
You are not crippled at all unless your mind is in a
splint.
Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations(Leonard Louis Levinson)Sir Harry Secombe –
Welsh comedian and singer
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much
as you like—just don’t swallow it.
AttributedDavid Seegal –?
US physician and medical educator
Although many members of the medical
profession might agree that their chosen discipline
often leads to periods of weariness, frustration, or
anxiety, the great majority of individuals in active
practice would find it difficult to single out a dull
day in their way of life.
Yale Scientific Magazine: ()
The apprentice in the various trades is not
permitted advancement until his special line of
duties has been rigorously tested under close
inspection. Certainly no lesser criterion should
prevail for the medical student.
Journal of the American Medical Association: ()
The involved student may thus come to appreciate
that work, work, and more work plus a sense of
proportion will ease him over the unexpected and
man made hurdles during his career in medical
school.
Journal of Medical Education: () ·