Quotes About Medicine

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

Before I went into the music business I wanted to be a surgeon.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Radical surgery is never fun.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

I chose a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery because it's very rewarding to watch someone with broken bones or bad scars return to normal.

Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.

Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.

HERE IS A GENERAL statement about Tibetan medicine: Human physiology is spoken of in terms of the three humours — wind, bile and phlegm. Where do disturbances originate? Wind, bile and phlegm imbalances occur respectively, from the 'three poisons', or primary mental afflictions, namely attachment, anger and ignorance.

How do they find out with the experiments?' '...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.' 'But isn't that unkind to the animal?' 'Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

Sie würden ihm helfen, ihn heilen. Arzneien und Ärzte. Eine Änderung der Einstellung. Dann Frieden. Seine Streitsüchtigkeit würde wie Unkraut aus ihm herausgejätet werden.

Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

Anybody can grow a bone in the penis; you don't have to be particularly healthy or tough.

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.