Quotes About Medicine

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

I used to be a real doctor. Now I just play one on TV.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.

I was part of the generation that was supposed to become doctors.

I grew up in the U.K., and my parents are both doctors.

Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.

I don't want to go to general medical doctors.

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.

Where I come from, Big Pharma's the enemy.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

One issue that affects every American is health care.

We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

Dr. Harold Saxton Burr was a member of the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Through intravenous feeding, blood transfusions, and surgical techniques, more of those who get to the hospital survive trauma, but survival rates for the most common types of cancer—those which make up 90 percent of the cases—have remained virtually unchanged over the last twenty-five years.

during the last century doctors have affected epidemics no more profoundly than did priests during earlier times. Epidemics came and went, imprecated by both but touched by neither. They are not modified any more decisively by the rituals performed in medical clinics than by those customary at religious shrines

A vast amount of contemporary clinical care is incidental to the curing of disease, but the damage done by medicine to the health of individuals and populations is very significant.