Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Medical treatment can have unpredictable results, healing or harming.
- In plain terms
- Medicine can make you healthy or sick.
- What can you take from it?
- Medical outcomes are uncertain.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you weigh medical risks?
- Have you seen treatment fail?
Another view
Modern medicine is often more reliable than in Ovid's time.
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