Quotes About Medicine

Heroin was created by the same research team that invented aspirin.

But, as Wilson pointed out, "once a company gets approval for a drug, a doctor can prescribe it for anything they want.

Some participants had said that "the only difference between heroin and OxyContin is that you can get OxyContin from a doctor.

Even cancer doctors had no clue about how to address the physical agony caused by the disease, he said. "They don't know how to treat it because they haven't been taught how to treat it.

Consequently, patients and their families were often reluctant to have doctors prescribe morphine, because in the popular imagination it was seen, as Richard put it, to be "a death sentence.

Like casino employees talking about an especially profligate gambler, the sales reps referred to these doctors as "whales.

He worried about what he described as "an unwholesome entanglement" between the people who prescribe our medicines and the people who make and market them.

No single individual did more to shape the character of medical advertising than the multi-talented Dr. Arthur Sackler." It was Arthur, the citation continued, who brought "the full power of advertising and promotion to pharmaceutical marketing.

Richard's cousin Kathe Sackler would claim that it was she who first suggested oxycodone

The term "broad spectrum" sounds clinical, but the truth is, it was coined by advertisers: it first entered the medical literature with Arthur's campaign for Terramycin.

His name was Arthur Sackler. He was Morty and Ray's older brother. All three of them were physicians;

Bitter." "That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy." "Isn't that the way of the world?" she said. "We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

When do you bleed a patient?" The question brought me up short. "When I want him to die?" I asked dubiously.

That's how you know it's real medicine," I said. "If it tasted good it would be candy.

Es amarga. —Así sabes que es una medicina —dije—. Si tuviera buen sabor, sería un caramelo. —Sí, es como la vida misma —replicó ella—. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

Discovery . . . favours the prepared mind. And there are no better prepared minds in medicine than good nurses.

Jonas Salk tested early preparations of his polio vaccine in retarded children at the Polk State School outside of Pittsburgh. At the time of Salk's experiments, no one in the government, the public, or the media objected to such testing. Everyone did it. Hilary Koprowski, working for the pharmaceutical company Lederle Laboratories, put his experimental live polio vaccine into chocolate milk and fed it to several retarded children in Petaluma, California,

Within five years of Röntgen's invention, X-rays were considered essential for clinical care. In 1900, at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, 1.3 percent of all patients were X-rayed; by 1925, it was 25 percent. In 2009, a poll conducted by the Science Museum in London named the discovery of X-rays as more important than the discoveries of penicillin, computers, motorized cars, the telegraph, and the DNA double helix.

In part because of antibiotics, we live 30 years longer than we did a hundred years ago.

I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fail. The people who live will die another day.

Beautiful women aren't allowed to be doctors. It's against the rules.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

I have to admit, Doctor, I've never liked our fee-for-service system of medicine. The rich get the best care and the rest can't afford it or lose everything they have trying to pay for it.