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 Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an 
art.
 [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes read more 
 Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an 
art.
 [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla 
medicina est.] 
 I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was 
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to read more 
 I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was 
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. 
 How the Doctor's brow should smile,
 Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.  
 How the Doctor's brow should smile,
 Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. 
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
 When taken
 To be well shaken.  
 When taken
 To be well shaken. 
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
 But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having 
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of read more 
 But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having 
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human 
body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will 
benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal 
attention to the rich and the poor.
   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), 
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized read more
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.