Medicine Is...

Medicines are only fit for old people.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

- Karl Marx

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

- Kevin Patterson

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

- Irving Langmuir

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

- Ovid

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

- William Osler

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

- Paracelsus

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

- P. T. Barnum

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

- James Bryce

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

- Plutarch

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

- Eric Topol

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

- Anton Chekhov

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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.

- Paracelsus

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

- Tess Gerritsen

Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.

- Ethan Canin