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Quotes About Medicine

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.
~ Jesse Torrey
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.
~ Patch Adams
You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.
~ Anthony S. Fauci
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
~ Paracelsus
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.
~ Michael Sandel
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
~ Michael Moore
Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.
~ Achy Obejas
I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
~ Britt Ekland
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.
~ George W. Bush
Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.
~ Henry E. Sigerist
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.
~ Jed Diamond
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~ Voltaire
There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.
~ Bob Goddard
I don't mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine.
~ Nancy S. Mure
Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.
~ Frank Oski
No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.
~ Bob Wright
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
~ Livy
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.
~ Erin Hunter
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
~ George S. Kaufman