What was that Oath?

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

VOLTAIRE- A Philospophical Dictionary. Physicians.

Laugh ur not imagining it

Adrian, The Emperor, exclaimed incesssantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

MONTAIGNE - Essays. Bk. II Ch. XXXVII

Disease

"The taxes laid upon this wretched life."

Lord Chesterfield

"Death's servant."

Francis Rous

Medicine

"Consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire

"A conjectural art."

Celsus

Medical Money

"Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases."

President Ronald Reagan - Commenting on Congress and the federal budget 1981

For Lost Doctors

From the inability to let alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, and science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

Sir Robert Hutchison

Do I have to?

"To eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not."

Mark Twain