“Many people like their doctors moldy like their cheese”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD
Category Archives: Surgery and Medicine Quotations
“Once you start studying medicine, you never get through with it.”
Charles H. Mayo, MD
“Young surgeons err in believing that knowledge can compensate for lack of experience; old surgeons err in believing that experience can compensate for knowledge.”
Anonymous
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Legendary “Founding Father” of Johns Hopkins Hospital
“War is the only proper school for surgeons.”
Hippocrates Greek physician and author of professional oath taken by all physicians upon starting practice Related Posts French Military Surgeon Ambroise Pare Quotation
“How do you hide a dollar bill from an internist?”
Put it under the patient’s bandage. Anonymous
“How do you hide a hundred dollar bill from a neurosurgeon?
Tape it onto their kid. Anonymous
“It has been a long time since I have helped a very sick patient get well. It is the most rewarding experience one can have with the possible exception of seeing one of the boys we train turn out well. The latter is less acute but more lasting perhaps.”
Jonathon Rhoades, MD, inventor of hyperalimentation and peritoneal dialysis, on his recovery from tuberculosis in 1947.
