German law
Any person suffering from an hereditary disease
may be rendered incapable of procreation by
means of a surgical operation if the experience of
medical science shows that it is highly probable
that his descendants would suffer from some
serious physical or mental hereditary defect.
For the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased OffspringJuly,
()
German proverbs
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far
away.
Invalids live longest.
No doctor is better than three.
Old age is a hospital that takes in all diseases.
Sickly body, sickly mind.
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his
belly.
Man without woman is head without body;
woman without man is body without head.
Medicines are not meat to live by.
Sauerkraut is good for a cold.
The garden is the poor man’s apothecary.
Edward Gibbon –
English historian
That salutary and lucrative profession.
Describing doctors from Salerno in the twelfth century in
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Kahlil Gibran –
Syrian writer and painter
You may give them your love but not your
thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
The Prophet‘On Children’
André Gide –
French writer
True kindness presupposes the faculty of
imagining as one’s own the suffering and joy of
others.
Attributed
W. Gill Wylie th century
Harvard-trained US physician
But to extend hospitals any further is to encourage
pauperism, idleness, and the breakup of the
family. Hospitals tend to weaken the family tie by
separating the sick from their homes and their
relatives, who are often too ready to relieve
themselves of the burden of the sick.
Hospitals: Their History, Organization, and Construction,
Appleton New York (), pp. –(quoted in The Social
Transformation of American MedicinePaul Starr. Basic
Books, New York ())Muriel Gillick
Contemporary, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Boston,
USA
Doctors cruelly and needlessly prolong the lives of
the dying (for reasons) of avarice and passion for
technology.
Archives of Internal Medicine: –()Sir William S. Gilbert –
English author and lyricistI see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
IolantheAct IPaul Gill
Contemporary British anthropologist and nurseBrain death may very well be a distinct,
physiological entity but this concept of death is
not accepted in many cultures and much
anthropological evidence exists to demonstrate
this.
Care of the Critically Ill: ()Sir Harold Gillies –
Plastic and burn surgeonIt is terrifying to think what will happen when the
mystery of organ transference has been solved; it
can be as revolutionary as the cleaving of the
atom. Anybody would be able to go into his local
organ bank and, for a not insurmountable sum,
trade in a weak heart or a feeble brain for a better
one, or a cirrhotic liver for a healthier one.
In Principles and Art of Plastic Surgerywith Ralph Millard
()There is no better training for a surgeon than to
be taught observation by a physician.
In Principles and Art of Plastic Surgerywith Ralph Millard
Vol. , Ch. ()The great ignominy to the plastic surgeon is his
inability to remove a scar without leaving another
one.
In Principles and Art of Plastic Surgerywith Ralph Millard
Vol. , Ch. ()It is easy to agree to do a beauty operation, but
not always quite so easy to be certain it is justified.
In Principles and Art of Plastic Surgerywith Ralph Millard
Vol. II, Ch. ()Raanan Gillon –
British professor of medical ethics
Meanwhile the medical profession—with our
awesome and to some terrifying powers over life
and death—must continue to earn that public
trust by being absolutely clear that the law as it
stands means we must never treat our patients
with the intent of accelerating their deaths.
British Medical Journal: () ·