Quotes About Medicine

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic, . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

The medicine man never cures his own illness.

The doctor takes care of you but he is not God.

Acupuncture: proof that stabbing someone can make things better.

Acupuncture: a jab well done.

Body is Created by God. Drugs & Surgeries are created by Man. Who do you trust?

but a hospital, it seemed, was a place for bodies, where bodies asserted their rights.

The deadweight of his body,coupled with the aches, made him remember back to a time when he'd gotten colds or flus. Same feeling. Was it possible he was getting sick? Made him wonder if anyone had come up with a product like Dead-quil or some shit. Probably not.

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients" part of the Hippocratic oath. Especially

I saw my father's wooden filing cabinet, his framed diplomas stacked on top of it, just as they'd been brought from his office. In that cabinet lay records of the colds, cut fingers, cancers, broken bones, mumps, diphtheria, births and deaths of a large part of Mill Valley for over two generations. Half the patients listed in those files were dead now, the wounds and tissue my father had treated only dust.

A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.

Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.

Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.

Growing up in a family of doctors, I wanted to be a brain surgeon for a while. But ultimately, I get most excited about creating things, which is why I decided to become an entrepreneur.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.