Quotes About Medicine

En lugar de biblioteca deberías tener clientela. Si por cada librote inútil de esos tuvieras un enfermo, estaríamos mejor de salud nosotros aquí en la casa. Yo, por mí, quisiera ver tu clínica llena, oír sonar el teléfono a todas horas, verte en consultas... En fin, que llegaras a ser algo...

Los médicos, en cambio, pueden ensayar en el hospital con los indios.

Holistic medicine and such books as Norman Cousins's account of his successful fight against terminal illness and Dr. Bernie Siegel's descriptions of self-healing are beginning to redress the abstractly materialist view of health that has become so prevalent in this century.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.

DORINE. Then what's your plan about this other match? MARIANE. To kill myself, if it is forced upon me. DORINE. Good! That's a remedy I hadn't thought of. Just die, and everything will be all right. This medicine is marvellous, indeed! It drives me mad to hear folk talk such nonsense. MARIANE. Oh dear, Dorine you get in such a temper! You have no sympathy for people's troubles. DORINE. I have no sympathy when folk talk nonsense, And flatten out as you do, at a pinch.

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

Women, it was believed, simply didn't have the mind for science or medicine—in spite of the fact that Marie Curie had just become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice.

Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: "The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of civilization's success, and those (scientists) who accomplish that task will be among the true navigators of a brave new world."     With

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

A doctor's job is to heal, he doesn't care how you got sick in the first place.

Doctors and nurses will never understand your romantic feelings. Because for them the heart is only there to pump blood throughout the body, they cannot see anything beyond their nose. They also cannot point to the source of love in the body.

Having a lot of children is the result of a lack of medical knowledge. We don't even know ourselves, let alone know the opposite sex.

The hospital is a playground for doctors.

There is no cure without side effects unless it is a heavenly miracle.

The human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.