Quotes About Medicine

Sara had once asked the woman why she didn't go to medical school, only to be told that nurses were the ones who practiced the real medicine.

Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the HMOs only give us so much time diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)

Chinese surgeons are the best in the world cos they're always dealing with kids with four legs or two heads in China, but Chinese doctors are rubbish when it comes to getting rid of a rash or a cold. There's a Chinese medicine shop round the corner from where I live and they give you twigs and leaves to eat if you have some eczema or flu. This shows the Chinese are not as up-to-date with everyday illnesses, yet they are great when it comes to removing an extra head.

A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.