THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL QUOTATIONS
Peter McDonald
This is a wonderfully stimulating and entertaining collection of quotations covering all aspects of medicine, from antiquity to the present. You can browse, reflect, smile, and even laugh out
loud.
Here’s a tiny taste
Before you tell the ‘truth’ to the patient, be sure you know the ‘truth’ and that the patient wants to hear it.
(Chinese Proverb)
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
(French Proverb)
We palliate what we cannot cure.
(Samuel Johnson 1709-84)
A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.
(John F. Kennedy 1917-63)
Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible.
(Dr. C. Jeff Miller 1874-1936)
Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know them.
(George W. Bush)
Wonderful reading!
Roger Woodruff
Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
(December 2004)
