Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Legendary “Founding Father” of Johns Hopkins Hospital
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
August 30th, 2010“War is the only proper school for surgeons.”
August 24th, 2010
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Greek physician and author of professional oath taken by all physicians upon starting practice
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“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.”
July 19th, 2010Jonathon Rhoades, MD, inventor of hyperalimentation and peritoneal dialysis, on his recovery from tuberculosis in 1947.
“Your doctrine, Professor, is based on upon the corpses of parturient women murdered out of ignornace. If you think my theory wrong, I challenge you to communicate to me your reasons… But should you continue, without having refuted my theory, to teach your purpils the theory of epidemic puerperal fever, I declare you a murderer before God and the world.
July 19th, 2010
Ignaz Semmelweis, circa 1864
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, to Professor Scanzoni, originatior of the idea that the unclean hands of physicians spread disease, particularly to women in childbirth.
“Cure occasionally, relieve often, console always.”
July 17th, 2010
“The pleasure of a physician is little, the gratitude of patients is rare and even rarer is material reward, but, these things never deter the student who feels the call within him.”
July 16th, 2010
Billroth in tan gown performing surgery
Theodor Billroth, legendary 19th century Austrian surgeon
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.”
July 15th, 2010Michael Crichton, MD, American writer and physician on why he gave up medicine immediately after completing medical school.
“Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.”
July 14th, 2010Dolly Parton, legendary country music singer (and plastic surgery recipient).
William S. Halsted, MD, “Father” of Modern American Surgery
July 5th, 2010“Surgery would be delightful if you did not have to operate.”
Rita Rudner, American Comedian
July 5th, 2010“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.”
April 1, 2009
April 1st, 2009“The entrance of women into the profession of medicine is an event of importance – not only to the medical profession but to humanity and society… And whenever the history of women in medicine is written, it will begin with the name of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.”
William H. Welch, MD, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
March 14, 2009
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January 13th, 2008
“Let food by thy medicine and medicine by thy food”
Hippocrates
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