Campbell Greig De Morgan –
Professor of Anatomy, Middlesex Hospital, London
Today the glands may be free; tomorrow they may
be affected. Today all disease may be distributed
far beyond.
Retrospect of Medicine: –() (Referring to the
spread of cancer)
Jerry Dennis
Contemporary US comedian
A consultant is a man who knows 129 ways to
make love, but doesn’t know any women.
Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotationsp. ,
Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London ()
Joyce Dennys
th century US physician
The only person to whom a Doctor can say exactly
what he thinks about another Doctor is his Wife.
That is why practically all Doctors are married.
The Over-Dose
Chauncey Depew –
US politician
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my
friends who exercise.
Attributed
Lord Devlin –
Appeal court judge, House of Lords
In strict legal terminology I doubt if doctors ever
assault; they batter.
Samples
John Dewey –
US philosopher
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and
of superstition worthy of the most flourishing
days of the medicine man
The Public and Its ProblemsCh.
Every great advance in science has issued from a
new audacity of imagination.
The Quest for CertaintyCh.
John Diamond –
British journalist
In some aspects of alternative medicine we are
fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but
debunking such beliefs is like telling people that
the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.
Attributed
In the face of such overwhelming statistical
possibilities hypochondria has always seemed to
me to be the only rational position to take on life.
C by John Diamondp. . Vermilion, London ()
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
C by John Diamondp. . Vermilion, London ()
Charles Dickens –
British novelist
Minds like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-
conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Barnaby RudgeCh.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than
the last.
Nicholas NicklebyCh.
A tall thin, large bowed, old gentleman, with an
appearance at first sight of being hard-featured;
but at second glance, the mild expression of his
face and some particular touches of sweetness
and patience about his mouth, corrected this
impression and assigned his long professional
rides, by day and night, in the bleak hill-weather,
as the true cause of that appearance.
The Long Tour of the Two Idle ApprenticesCh.()
(written with Wilkie Collins) describing the features of a
country doctor
There is something in sickness that breaks down
the pride of manhood.
AttributedNiall Dickson –
BBC television health correspondent
You would have to be on another planet not to see
that something is changing in the state of
medicine. I suggest that the most important
change is the collapse of deference.
Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians, London, May
()
As time goes by a new set of relationships between
the medical profession and the public will emerge.
Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians, London, May
()Denis Diderot –
French writer
Doctors are always working to preserve our health
and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more
often successful.
AttributedJohann Friedrich Dieffenbach
–
Professor of Surgery, Berlin
That beautiful dream has become a reality:
operations can now be performed painlessly.
On using ether anaesthesia.Joseph Dietl –
Polish-born Austrian physician
A physician should not be judged by the success of
his treatment but by the extent of his knowledge.
Attributed ()
As long as medicine is an art, it will not become a
science. As long as there are successful physicians
there will be no scientific physicians.
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