Quotes About Medicine

WTFact: The human small intestine can reach up to eight meters in length. Why do you want to know that? Because all knowledge is important, f*ck-face.

people are blunt with one another, sometimes even cruel, believing honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

The field of Western medicine has seemingly become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines?

The whole drama of pandemic created is to sell medicine, vaccines, ppe, ventilators etc and profit healthcare people.

Le travail, c'est le meilleur des médicaments.

sobre la necesidad de proteger y difundir la herbolaria indígena como una práctica médica válida. Podrías reclamar los derechos de los mapuches en la Araucanía frente a las invasiones de sus tierras por colonos blancos. Defenderías la preservación de las lenguas nativas.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

Book Power Books feed and cure and chortle and collide. In all this willful world of thud and thump and thunder man's relevance to books continues to declare. Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower, steel, stitch, and cloud and clout, and drumbeats in the air.

The United States is one of only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs

Patients with very high blood pressure, for example, stand to benefit a lot more from treatment than do patients with blood pressures slightly above average.

the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.

the first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt.

the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.

Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.

The two of us stood gazing at the gleaming rows without any idea that it was nearly all useless and that the days of the old medicines were nearly over. Soon they would be hustled into oblivion by the headlong rush of the new discoveries and they would never return.

even the most devout creationist today will not walk into an emergency room and insist that he or she be given "only the treatment available to Moses, or Jesus, or Mohammed, and of course, don't bother with that anesthetic stuff. And, while I am here, why not trepan my brain and let those evil spirits out?

Psychiatry today is less a psychotherapeutic enterprise than a pharmacological crapshoot

the greatest harm from drug treatment is not so much the toxicity or side effects as it is the suppression effect.

equal dose of potassium chloride was administered. This drug relaxes the heart and stops its pumping.

Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection.

Could happen. All I know is, if I was, like, riddled with cancer, I could be cured tomorrow. My parents would pay all the money in the world for the greatest doctors in the history of mankind, and snap, I'd be healed." She slipped her hand out of mine and slapped it against her forehead. "How come they can take out tumors, but they can't take out thoughts?

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.