Quotes About Medicine

FRANZ ANTON MESMER (1733-1815) ~ You must know that the will is a powerful adjuvant in medicine. PARACELSUS

From the beginning of time man has undoubtedly more often been cured of his ailments by suggestion than by any other means, no matter how reluctant medical practitioners are to admit the fact.

Whenever remarkable cures have taken place, we may be pretty sure that suggestion has been at work.

today our physicians make use of radium: but no matter the method adopted, every one of them depends to a large extent for its efficacy upon the power it has of arousing the will-to-health in the patient.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

acromegaly. Frau Dr. Anna Kavalier was a neurologist

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

One reason abortion remained illegal was because it was so safe.

You know, there's a reason why people like morphine," he said.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

Standardized process guidelines belie the complexity of individual patient circumstances, and freeze care delivery processes rather than foster innovation. What is needed is competition on results, not standardized care. What is needed is competition on results, not just evidence-based medicine. There should be no presumption that good quality is more costly.

Rather than measuring results and rewarding excellent providers with more patients, the focus has been on lifting all boats by attempting to raise all providers of a service to an acceptable level. The principal tools have been practice guidelines and standards of care that every provider is expected to meet. Evidence-based medicine is another term for practicing based on accepted standards of care.

These numbers demonstrate that we can absolutely afford an aging society. In fact, enhanced longevity is essential for our society. That's because if longevity increases without better health, it will mean higher costs of medicine and health care as people live longer. And that financial burden can overwhelm a country's ability to handle an aging and unhealthy demographic.

When banking stops, credit stops, and when credit stops, trade stops, and when trade stops—well, the city of Chicago had only eight days of chlorine on hand for its water supply. Hospitals ran out of medicine. The entire modern world was premised on the ability to buy now and pay later.

To Redelmeier the very idea that there was a great deal of uncertainty in medicine went largely unacknowledged by its authorities. There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.

His father had turned away from an early career in medicine, Amos explained to friends, because "he thought animals had more real pain than people and complained a lot less." Yosef Tversky was a serious man.

doctors don't think probabilities apply to their patients

In math you always check your work. In medicine, no.

Yosef Tversky, the son of a rabbi, despised religion and loved Russian literature, and found a great deal of amusement in what came out of the mouths of his fellow human beings. His father had turned away from an early career in medicine, Amos explained to friends, because "he thought animals had more real pain than people and complained a lot less.