Quotes About Medicine

William Osler's ironical definition of man as 'the medicine-taking animal' is therefore justified inasmuch as it captures something distinctive about humans.

Medicine has always been my calling.

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.

I always encourage people to go to a doctor, a doctor knows best in most cases.

Both times I had cancer? Preventative medicine. Caught 'em both early. I'll take physicals anytime I can get one.

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.

I-70 is a crucial economic artery for Colorado and the West, and on an average day, almost 5,000 semi-trucks carrying medicine, food, livestock, fuel, and other critical supplies travel on this federal highway.

What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.

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My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

I was supposed to go into nuclear medicine and become a doctor.

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.