Quotes About Medicine

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

My body is weird. I can't drink strong drinks. I can't even drink cough medicine - I used to cry when my mom forced me. I don't drink alcohol.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

I have my loyal cyber-buddies out there, and I really do answer my e-mail. I'm in my pajamas at 3 in the morning with my zit medicine on. I owe everything to them.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.