Wednesday's Words & Quippish Quotes: Medicine

This week is National Physician Assistant Week, and since that's my day job, I thought I'd dedicate this week's Wednesday's Words & Quippish Quotes to Medicine, one of the few subjects that I'm almost as passionate about as books. Enjoy!

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” 

― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ” 

― Hippocrates

“Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.” 

― Richelle E. Goodrich

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

― Voltaire

“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?” 

― George Carlin

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” 

― George Gordon Byron

“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it” 

― Maimonides

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.” 

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.