Quotes About Medicine

Life is not calculus, you cold-hearted… algorithm." "Life might not be," I said, steeling myself against his enmity. "But in medicine we use our energies to help those we can, not those we cannot.

But I believe that the huge advances now being made in genetic research will be the key to personalized medicine one day.

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen.

Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

As an emergency physician, I can tell you that the best health insurance in the world means nothing if patients can't reach a hospital in their moment of need.

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

Imagine the progress that could be made by gathering together the world's scientists, engineers, physicians, oncologists, epidemiologists and more in a super-team effort to end cancer.

Physicians should be genotyped.