A collection of valuable quotes on humor, medicine and spirituality
It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly, but it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them
The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.
“The health system” will not pay the price for highly skilled and educated persons to dispense drugs, but the system will pay for the appropriate selection and use of these drugs, and it is that responsibility upon which the future of this profession must be built and built quickly. Dallas,March 21, 1993
The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.
Polypharmacy is a prosthesis for the physician’s incompetence. The less he knows, the more prescriptions he writes.
We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.
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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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
When a patient [who] is on a drug–on any drug–becomes ill, the Napoleonic Code rather than the English common law should apply: the drug should be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
