Medical Art Quotes

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Oh here's an idea: let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Medicine is a noble art. We must preserve our moral purity.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.