Quotes About Medicine

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

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

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.