Quotes on prescription drugs
9. Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause,
and this cause no drug can reach.
Wier Mitchel, M.D.
10. The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the
disease and once from the medicine.
William Osler, M.D.
11. Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend
it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking
drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further
embarrassed and harder to cure.
Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
12. Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital
admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further,
the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance,
depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug
reactions.
Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
13. Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take
that which would make a well man sick.
L.F. Kebler, M.D.
14. What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science
when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea
that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the
right drug is found?
John H. Tilden, M.D.
15. The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines
is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system
will be abandoned.
Charles Armbruster, M. D.
16. We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population
and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.
It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with
millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs.
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D
Courtesy Christine
9. Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause,
and this cause no drug can reach.
Wier Mitchel, M.D.
10. The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the
disease and once from the medicine.
William Osler, M.D.
11. Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend
it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking
drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further
embarrassed and harder to cure.
Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
12. Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital
admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further,
the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance,
depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug
reactions.
Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
13. Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take
that which would make a well man sick.
L.F. Kebler, M.D.
14. What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science
when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea
that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the
right drug is found?
John H. Tilden, M.D.
15. The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines
is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system
will be abandoned.
Charles Armbruster, M. D.
16. We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population
and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.
It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with
millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs.
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D
Courtesy Christine
