Quotes About Medicine

In medicine there were too many 120-volt plugs that fit into 240-volt outlets. The ease with which a nurse might give one patient medicine intended for another, for example

Standing between the cure and the patient, in this case, was a U.S. medical-industrial complex that lurched between lethargy and avarice.

The Great Influenza, a book by the historian John Barry about the 1918 flu pandemic.

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Cancer? Stamets's extract of turkey tail mushrooms (Trametes versicolor) has been shown to help cancer patients by stimulating their immune systems. (Stamets claims to have used it to help cure his mother's stage 4 breast cancer.)

Psilocybe cubensis, one of the more common species of magic mushroom.

LSD too, it is easy to forget, was derived from a fungus, Claviceps purpurea, or ergot.

Charnay's journey at Hopkins solidified her commitment to herbal medicine (she now works for a supplement maker in Northern California); it also confirmed her in a decision to divorce her husband.

A land with lots of herring can get along with few doctors.

Every single one of us deserves access to quality, affordable health care.

What's exciting to me is figuring out something that has eluded us for so long: How do we make sure every single person can see a doctor in this country? That's really exciting to me.

My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.

My job as the doctor is to provide my patients with the information and services they need to make the best decisions for them and their families. Medicine is complex, and every situation is different.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Just being kind, for instance. A study in New Zealand of diabetic patients in 2016 found that the proportion suffering severe complications was 40 per cent lower among patients treated by doctors rated high for compassion. As one observer put it, that is 'comparable to the benefits seen with the most intensive medical therapy for diabetes'.

Almost three-quarters of the forty million antibiotic prescriptions written each year in the United States are for conditions that cannot be cured with antibiotics.

pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. Our

Despite this, angioplasties remain extremely popular.

The drift of all this was that the British don't expect over-the-counter drugs to change their lives, whereas we Americans will settle for nothing less.

Antibiotics are about as nuanced as a hand grenade. They wipe out good microbes as well as bad. Increasing evidence shows that some of the good ones may never recover, to our permanent cost.

Every bit of penicillin made since that day is descended from that single random cantaloupe

It hardly needs pointing out that for most of history the focus of medicine has been to make sick people better, but now increasingly doctors devote their energies to trying to head off problems before they even arise, through programmes of screening and the like, and that changes the dynamics of care entirely.

Smallpox was so called to distinguish it from the great pox, or syphilis.)

The inescapable conclusion is that higher spending in America doesn't necessarily result in better medicine, just higher costs.