Quotes About Medicine

Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth: uppers and downers as they were. I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them lose themselves when they require escape from the pressures and anxieties of life in a complex society...

Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.

However, poverty—whether measured by infant mortality, life expectancy, access to medicine and regular employment or simple inability to purchase basic necessities—has increased steadily since the 1970s

At the rate AI technology is improving, a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult." Medicine

a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.

Nature is thus more than a diverse gene bank harboring undiscovered herbal cures for future diseases—although

With Hitler you do not feel that you are with a man. You are with a medicine man, a form of spiritual vessel, a demi-deity, or even better, a myth... He is not a man, but a collective. He is not an individual, but a whole nation.

I am the true medicine [says Wisdom], correcting and transmuting that which is no longer into that which it was before its corruption, and that which is not into that which it ought to be." * (Ibid., p. 459).

It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon we use against bacteria. And now, ninety years after Herelle first encountered bacteriophages, these viruses may finally be ready to become a part of modern medicine.

If only sugar were medicine! I should take it every day.

Even though medicine is all about facts and data, the driving force of what engages people (employees, investors, customers) is the human story behind what we're doing. Again and again we have found that crafting it into human terms is the most effective way to engage those three groups.

Maybe in ten or twenty years we'll look back on chemotherapy and gasp. Another generation may be appalled that we ever did this, dripped poison through a needle into a person's body to make him well. ?

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Too many Negroes go into medicine and dentistry merely for selfish purposes, hoping thereby to increase their income and spend it in joyous living. They have the ambition to own fine automobiles, to dress handsomely, and to figure conspicuously in society. The practice of these professions among poor Negroes yields these results.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

Typical of the medical profession,' said Larry bitterly. 'They can't even spot a disease until the patient is twice life size.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald M. Lemole

Gerald M. Lemole

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.