Quotes About Medicine

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

Thus, whatever the medical student has been taught, and even genuinely believes, about the ideals of medicine, the primacy of empathy, the value of the doctor-patient relationship--all of this is swamped once he or she steps into the wards. [...] It's no wonder that empathy gets trounced in the actual world of clinical medicine; everything that empathy requires seems to detract from daily survival.

Fear is a primal emotion in medicine. Every doctor can tell you of times when she or he was terrified; most can list more episodes than you might wish to hear. [...] It may be sublimated at times, it may wax and wane, but the fear of harming your patients never departs; it is inextricably linked to the practice of medicine.

But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know where the problems lay.

These younger doctors are the immediate interface with clinical medicine for the students. The students trail their interns and residents every waking minute and absorb from them how medicine is done—how it is spoken, thought, written, performed, attired, and equipped.

Her idea of preventive medicine was very extreme, kill the

dreading the trip. I've never seen so much medicine and

An assistant could be just what the witch doctor ordered.

By the 1800s, animal sacrifice had been largely discredited as a medical procedure; today it is rarely used outside of Miami.

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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope: I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.

A piece of work that will make sick men whole.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

Invest me in my motley. Give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.

Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians; for I have constantly avoided learning anything from the physicians, and even the appearance of having studied their art. Nevertheless I ask you to appoint me to the office of a physician, and I will endeavour to learn by experimenting on you.

Being able to see the end of anything gave him a tremendous sense of relief. As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.

se torció el tobillo dejó a un lado el ibuprofeno y confió su tratamiento al acónito y potentes raciones de ajo y jengibre. «Por

Cultiva unos geranios silvestres —sugirió—. O compra extracto por Internet.» El geranium niveum es la medicina mágica tarahumara; según el Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, es igual de efectivo que el vino tinto a la hora de neutralizar la acción de los radicales libres. En palabras de un escritor, los geranios silvestres son «anti todo: antiinflamatorios, antivirales, antibacterianos, antioxidantes».