Prevent Disease, Relieve Suffering, Heal the Sick

by admin on 04/03/2018 5:35 AM

To prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick—this is our work. –William Osler

Doctors allow you to die. Charlatans kill you. –Jean de La Bruyère

English physicians kill you. The French let you die. –William Lamb

Others kill you before you are born. –Unknown        

The common people say that physicians are the best class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.  –John of Salisbury

It is unnecessary—perhaps dangerous—in medicine to be too clever. –Robert Hutchinson

A physician and a priest ought not to belong to any particular nation and be divested of all political opinions. –Napoleon Bonaparte

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