Quotes About Medicine

By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

But one of the major functions of his Third World missionaries was to go out into the hinterlands and vaccinate people—and there was more than just vaccine in those needles.

had in mind a Dr. Waterhouse," Eliza said. "He was cut for the stone recently." The Marquis got the same aghast, cringing, yet fascinated look that all men did whenever the topic of lithotomy arose

That's what medicine was to kids: an acute response to disease. When you got older you understood it was more like brushing your teeth: a system of highly evolved strategies for preempting bad things that could happen to you if you took no preventive measures.

If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

Why is it now a hundred times more expensive to bring a new medicine to market than it was sixty years ago Ã¢â'¬â€œ a phenomenon Juan Enriquez has called 'Moore's Law* in reverse'? Why would the Food and Drug Administration probably prohibit the sale of table salt if it were put forward as a new pharmacological product (it is after all toxic in large doses)?11