M.Therese Southgate –
US physician and medical historian
Unfortunately, too many authors write as though
they will never have another chance—and they
are correct.
Journal of the American Medical Association:
()
Lazaro Spallanzani –
Italian professor of biology
If I set out to prove something, I am no real
scientist—I have to learn to follow where the facts
lead me—I have to learn to whip my prejudices.
Attributed
Spanish Proverbs
Bleed him and purge him; if he dies, bury him.
He that seeks finds.
In sleep we are all equal.
Science is madness if good sense does not cure it.
Six men give a doctor less to do than one woman.
Time cures the sick man, not the ointment.
Gavin Spence –
British orthopaedic surgeon
Audit, the science of spying on the obvious, is
clearly here to stay.
Hospital DoctorNovember ()
Sir James Calvert Spence –
Professor of Child Health, Durham, UK
The essential unit of medical practice is the
occasion when, in the intimacy of the consulting
room or sick room, a person who is ill, or believes
himself to be ill, seeks the advice of a doctor
whom he trusts.
The Purpose and Practice of MedicineCh. , pp. –.
Oxford University Press, London.
Herbert Spencer –
British philosopher and biologist
Science is organised knowledge.
EducationCh.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing
by the multiplicity of the changes at any one
moment taking place in it.
Principles of BiologyPt I, Ch. , Sect.
Survival of the fittest.
Principles of BiologyPt , Ch.
Only when genius is married to science can the
highest results be produced.
EducationCh.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem
conscious that there is such a thing as physical
morality.
Attributed
Willard L. Sperry –
US Professor of Theology, Yale
Once a doctor subordinates the claims of an
individual patient under his care to the abstract
claims of society in general, or the hypothetical
claims of some possible alternate patients, he has
sold the pass.
The Ethical Basis of Medical PracticeCh. ()Benjamin Spock –
US paediatrician and psychiatrist
There are only two things a child will share
willingly—communicable diseases and his
mother’s age.
Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations(Leonard Louis Levinson)David Spodick
Contemporary
Physicians cure little or nothing. We alter
physiology, arrest inflammation, and remove
tissue, with the exception of some infections and
some deficiency states there are few if any cures in
terms ofrestitutio ad integrum.
American Heart Journal: –()Margaret Stacey –
Professor of Sociology, Warwick University, UK
For the past years, British doctors have had
privileged arrangements for accounting for
themselves; privileged not only among other
health care workers but also among all other
occupations.
Medical Accountability, In: Whistleblowing in the Health
Servicep. , Geoffrey Hunt; Edwin Arnold, London ()
There is a strong case for having a well-organised
and united medical profession independent of the
state, not only in the interests of the profession
itself but to speak up for the health of the nation
from the point of view of skilled independent
knowledge.
Medical Accountability. In: Whistleblowing in the Health
Servicep. , Geoffrey Hunt; Edwin Arnold, London ()George Ernst Stahl –
Professor of Medicine at Halle, Germany
If nature induces fever and inflammation, the
physician must not try to counteract nature’s
purpose in these matters.
Quoted in The Great Doctors—A Biographical History of
Medicinep. Henry E. Sigerist; Dover Publications New
York () (original W. W. Norton and Co. Ltd, )Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby
–
British Statesman
Those who think they have not time for bodily
exercise will sooner or later have to find time for
illness.
The Conduct of Life, Address at Liverpool College,
December () . ·