Medical Department Detachment

Famous quotes containing the words medical, department and/or detachment:

    “The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

    “All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)