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Medical Quotations
The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.
**William Osler**
The human’s “desire to take medicine” carries, however, a price tag. Nature’s maladies are succeeded by iatrogenic hazards. Arising out of a restorative instinct, polypharmacy becomes itself an affliction
New medicines, and new methods of cures, always work miracles for a while
**Willliam Heberden (1710-1801)**
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
**Sir William Osler**
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I think of physic as much good or ill as any one would have me: for we have no traffic together. I am of a quite contrary humour to other men, for I always despise it; but when I am sick, instead of recanting, or entering into composition with it, I begin…to hate and fear it, telling them who importune me to take physic, that at all events they must give me time to recover my strength and health, that I may be the better able to support and encounter the violence and danger of their potions.
**Michel Eyquem de Montaigne**
Evidence Based medicine is a discipline that requires prior evidence of the value for everything except itself.
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The weller you are the more drugs you can take without getting sick. That’s why doctors don’t get into more trouble than they do with therapy
**Eugene A Stead, Jr.**
Remember how much you do not know. Do not pour strange medicines into your patients.
**Sir William Osler**
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability
**Sir William Osler**
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