Quotes About Medicine

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

The cure for everything, is not a medicine, but the pure kindness of acompassionate heart.

Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.

Kindness is the greatest medicine that can heal all ills.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

Give me the power to produce fever and I'll cure all disease.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

Universal health care was always an issue Mom cared about, and the more care she got, the angrier she became that good medicine wasn't available for everyone in the United States. The pharmacy almost always provoked a political discussion or diatribe.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind. - Epicurus

I'm afraid I possess an unfortunate gap in my medical education of never having believed in much of that stuff. I've often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

In every field of human endeavor, whether it is flying, medicine, or armed combat, this reflexive/reflective split cleaves the world into amateurs and professionals, the former driven by their emotions, the latter by calculation and logic.

There is, in fact, a rich and informative scientific literature about what works and what doesn't in finance; it is routinely ignored. Instead of depending on the Journal of Finance (the investing equivalent of The New England Journal of Medicine), they get their advice from USA Today or worse, from their stockbroker. Of