Quotes About Medicine

A society with extreme inequality, unmasked neo-fascist tendencies, ?and an unraveling climate is sick, and neoliberalism, as one of the major drivers of all of these crises, is grossly inadequate medicine. It offers only a weak no to the forces responsible, and it lacks a yes worth seizing.

When Jonas Salk, a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, found it and developed the first polio vaccine in 1952, he did not patent the lifesaving treatment. There is no patent, Salk told the broadcaster Edward R. Murrow: Could you patent the sun?

So what were these "restrictions" really for? Why were they proliferating and shape shifting day by day and week by week? Gradually, it became clear. The true reason had nothing to do with medicine. The true reason is that, in the elites' war against Western humanism, "restrictions" had become the weapon of choice.

Poetry is the Path on the Rainbow by which the soul climbs; it lays hold on the Friend of the Soul of Man. Such exalted states are held to be protective and curative. Medicine men sing for their patients, and, in times of war, wives gather around the Chief's woman and sing for the success of their warriors. Calling on Zeus by the names of Victory as Euripides puts it.

To my surprise, I discovered that anesthesiologists are a bit in the dark themselves. "How anesthesia works has been a mystery since the discovery of anesthesia itself," writes Michael Alkire, an anesthesiologist at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, in the new Encyclopedia of Consciousness.

All too often, doctors end up giving antibiotics to their patients with colds. This is a fundamentally pointless treatment, because antibiotics work only on bacteria and are useless against viruses.

Who said anything about hospitals? That's where people die. Hospitals are statistically the most dangerous places in the world.

I want a swallow of whiskey to take that pill, Polly yelled. Damn things get stuck when you make me take them water.

refill the aspirin bottle

Mick had heard Portia say that before, but she had thought it was a tale. How could a colored man be a doctor?

What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

People always mention that they'd love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it's time - laughter being the best medicine.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

We have always preferred to be operated on by the assistants of famous surgeons who are also always famous medical professors, and not by those surgeons and professors themselves.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease

Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. - Thomas Jefferson

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Medicine is not a science; physicians must act. They must do the best they can, even when it is inadequate, even when they don't know all there is to know, even when there is nothing to do. So must we all.