Quotes About Medicine

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Because if I ever get nailed, I don't want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it's you lying out there, I'm gonna make sure you're alive before I go.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Laughter (humor) is the best medicine"!

Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don't apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much—sometimes ten times as much—as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.

All of the diseases that modern medicine declares war on never seem to touch any of those ninety-year-old farmers who have lived on bacon and eggs and butter for almost a century. The media, following current low-fat medical wisdom, calls that a paradox. We don't.

To understand why carbohydrates are the instrument of death, we need just a little science. Only recently have science and medicine begun to acknowledge a condition called chronic hyperinsulinemia. That's the term for chronic high insulin made in your own body. This can only occur when you chronically consume carbohydrates. You could never chronically consume carbohydrates in nature. Trees and plants fruit only in one season and flower in the other.

Preventive medicine is thought of as alternative medicine in this country.

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines.

We heard you were ready to die," the largest rabbit said. "We have come for you." "But I'm not dead yet!" Pinocchio cried. "You will be in just a few minutes, if you don't take your medicine." Pinocchio swallowed his medicine in one quick gulp. Almost immediately, he felt as good as new. He had to admit, when one is sick, even bitter medicine is a very sweet thing.

human red blood cells have no nuclei and thus possess no DNA of their own.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.