Quotes About Medicine

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that's why I choose to travel and recognize the value of diverse points of view in medicine.

A young woman attending the best medical school in the world," Ransom mused aloud, "far from home, taking classes in a foreign language. You're a determined woman, doctor." "No medical school here would admit a female," Garret said pragmatically. "I had no choice." "You could have given up." "That is never an option," she assured him, and he smiled.

Pro medicina est dolor, dolorem qui necat ." "The pain that kills pain acts as medicine," Win translated. "That would make sense only to a Roma," Amelia said, and Cam grinned.

I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes of terror and confusion I felt standing powerless in her room served as a visceral reminder throughout my training... that the big picture isn't enough in medicine...

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It's what doctors most love to do.

If a doctor has worked through the problem well, there's a very good chance that one of these possible diagnoses will be right. The rest though, by definition, will be wrong. We are regularly wrong in the pursuit of being right. … The question we are taught to ask ourselves is, if it isn't that, what else could it be?

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

In medicine, it is essential to rule out diseases that can kill, and then move on to those that may only make you wish you were dead.

Despite all the available technology, the tools doctors often rely on most are the most old-fashioned—a phone, a respected colleague, a mentor or friend.

One of the human limitations in medicine is that no one can know everything.

Medicine—to the extent that it can be called a science—is a sensual science, one in which we collect data about a patient through touch and the other senses according to a systematic method in order to make a diagnosis.

Are you educated in the art of medicine?" Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. "A bit," I hedged.

lulled by the doses of morphine and scopolamine administered

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind.

A medieval physician needed the patient's astronomical details, just as a modern GP would check his or her blood pressure.

Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine.

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.

If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. —Gretel Ehrlich

liked internal medicine and pediatrics, but the physicians I followed warned me that those practices were becoming far less personal—to stay afloat, they had to cram in thirty patients each day. If they were starting out now, a few even said, they might consider another field.

she added, I'd still have to answer to insurance companies with their time-consuming mounds of paperwork, which would take me away from patient care. Has it really come to this? I thought. Writing as a way to support a living as a doctor? Didn't it used to be the other way around?

The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.