Author: Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier (1861–1949), quoted in Maurice B. Strauss, Familiar Medical Quotations, 1968

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The patient has the right to accept your advice or to ignore it. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author unknown, c.1930s

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

America does not have a health care system; what modern medicine has created is an illness maintenance system. ~Morris Hyman, M.D., paraphrased

"The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state."

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”―  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw