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Medical Quotations

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When searching for an answer, always use a floodlight, not a laser pointer.
 

**John Jameson**
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One Drug

 

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**
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Polypharmacy

 

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
 

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New Medicines

 

New medicines, and new methods of cures, always work miracles for a while
 

**Willliam Heberden (1710-1801)**
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Treat the Patient

 

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
 

**Sir William Osler**
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Read it Slow

 

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**
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EBM

 

Evidence Based medicine is a discipline that requires prior evidence of the value for everything except itself.
 

**Unknown (email John@ProfJameson if you know the source)**
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Weller

 

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.**
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Remember…

 

Remember how much you do not know. Do not pour strange medicines into your patients.
 

**Sir William Osler**
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Uncertainty

 

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability
 

**Sir William Osler**
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