Rembrandt's Anatomy Lessons
The real story behind the famous 17th Century Amsterdam painting
The Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons would allow only one public dissection a year, and the body to be dissected had to be that of an executed criminal. The perfect opportunity for Dr. Tulp’s dissection came on January 16, 1632...
QuotaBillsGrief is itself a medicine. - William Cowper
Society is a hospital of incurables. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin
Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. - Carrie Latet
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown
The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic. - Joanna Lumley
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. - Irvin S Cobb
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. - Richard Lewis
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. - Elbert Hubbard
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. - Sir Walter Raleigh
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
Grave: A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. - Seneca
The latest thing in psychiatry is group therapy. Instead of couches, they use bunk beds. - Henny Youngman
The practice of medicine is a thinker's job, the practice of surgery a plumber's. - Martin H. Fischer
The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. - Malcolm Muggeridge
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles
Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. - James Bryce
When you’re a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. - Unknown
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine
There are some things in life where it's better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them. - Al Michaels
Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy. - Oscar Wilde
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood, I'd just type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. - James B. Herrick
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. - William Osler
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. - Leonardo da Vinci
The public blabbers about preventive medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. - Martin H. Fischer
I'm planning to adopt a dog soon. It wasn't my first choice but my Doctor told me I can't have any biologically. - Bill Murray
A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you: that action on your part which best conserves the interest of your patient. - Martin H. Fischer
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. - Martin H. Fischer
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin
Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. - Gerald F Lieberman