Quotes About Medicine

One of the most important skills in my profession is prognosis, the prediction of what will happen to a patient going forward.

If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.

Doctors troubleshoot the human body—they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)

It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Calling him close, he asked him to bring his medicine-chest and to hold the candle near him, for the man noticed he could hardly see. With great difficulty Dr. Livingstone selected the calomel, which he told him to place by his side; then, directing him to pour a little water into a cup, and to put another empty one by it, he said in a low feeble voice, "All right; you can go out now." These were the last words he was ever heard to speak.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh.

It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.

When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.