Archive for July, 2006
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Monday, July 31st, 2006The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. ~Alexander of Tralles Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. ~Author Unknown I will lift mine eyes [...]
Funny Doctors Quotes
Sunday, July 30th, 2006I am dying with the help of too many physicians. Alexander the Great (356 – 323 B.C.) A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor’s help. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor’s nose. Henry Wadsworth [...]
Quotes About Doctors
Saturday, July 29th, 2006The first organized attempt to mitigate the horrors of war, to prevent disease and save the lives of those engaged in military service by sanitary measures and a more careful nursing of the sick and wounded, was made by a commission appointed by the British Government during the Crimean war, to inquire into the terrible [...]
Nurses Quotes
Friday, July 28th, 2006Famous Nurse: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) – This British pioneer in the field (who was also a mathematician) insisted on more sanitary conditions for nurses and doctors during the Crimean War, which cut the death rate of wounded soldiers by a staggering amount. Florence Nightingale was a true nursing legend whose work changed the field of [...]
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