The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer and with the medicine she was on this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

By keeping my hand in that it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I began the study of medicine impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine a knowledge of chemistry and of some branches of natural history and indeed of several other departments of science affords useful assistance.

Make hunger thy sauce as a medicine for health.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.