Quotes About Medicine

The Egyptians said that a physician could cure only if his heart was moved and his emotions engaged in behalf of a patient

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To Western medicine, understanding an illness means uncovering a distinct entity that is separate from the patient's being; to Chinese medicine, understanding means perceiving the relationships among all the patient's signs and symptoms in the context of his or her life.

acupuncture) and acutherapy are considered an integral part of veterinary medicine.

Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?

I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

I've never gone and spoken to an audience, you know, 'come and be my patient.' I've never taken an ad in a newspaper, 'come and be my patient.'

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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