Quotes About Medicine

The first transplant recipients did not die because their new kidneys failed, but rather because their bodies would not be fooled. Though the new kidney cells looked and acted in every respect like the old ones, they did not belong. Transplant surgeons must now give the recipient immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of the patient's life

Beneath the noise, below the din, I hear a voice, it's whispering, "In science and in medicine, "I was a stranger, you took me in."

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

One of the Big Ideas in this book is that fungi, especially fungi from old-growth forests, may be sources of new medicines that are active against a range of germs, including HIV/AIDS and the causative agents of smallpox and anthrax, potential bioterrorist threats.

To start with, a person is considered 'cured of cancer' if they don't die within five years of diagnosis.

chemotherapy as a cancer cure is pathetic.

The public is conditioned to believe new and better drugs are the answer to our medical problems, but that is seldom the case.

Sure, we need hospitals for broken bones, accidents, things like that. But for treating disease or chronic illness—hospitals are a death trap.

The study went on to state that by prescribing toxic drugs, performing unnecessary surgeries, or simply making a mistake, doctors are causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of patients every year.

chemotherapy does not work for the majority of cancers.' And

Nature demands our respect, Anna. It has a brutal side for sure, but if you can learn its language, there's peace to be found, and comfort too. The best kind of medicine I know.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen.

A patient suffering from catarrh disease of the ear is commonly disordered in general health; especially are the digestive functions disturbed. These will require appropriate treatment by medicines.

Try to find a medical center that has a finger on the pulse of the latest treatments both nationally and internationally.

It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.

killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.

pharmacopoeia of drugs, hormones, and proscribed viral vectors.

He was a huge man, whose sixtieth decade had been stretched out for a punishingly long time by telomere treatments

Defying its narrow name, what the late nineteenth century called the industrial revolution went far beyond creating modern industry; it altered out of all recognition commerce, banking, transport, communications, administration, medicine, the relations of men and women and employers and employees. It was a revolution in knowledge that the Victorian century would master more completely, and would need more urgently, than any of its predecessors.

Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of not just Italian, but also of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin also left a deep impression on non-Latin languages, such as English. Even after Latin fell out of everyday use, it remained the unifying language of learning, particularly medicine and science.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.