Malcolm Rogers quotes

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.
-- Malcolm Rogers

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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.