Quotes About Medicine

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.

I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.'

Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.

Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.

the medieval Doctrine of Signatures held that the shapes of plants constituted a broad hint from the Almighty as to their uses in healing.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

What the heart desires is medicine to itself. Does that make sense?

What the heart desires is medicine to itself.

Nous ne savons plus si les médecins ne provoquent pas la mort au lieu de nous protéger. Si ce que nous avons dans notre assiette va nous alimenter ou nous intoxiquer. D ou une évidente crise de confiance - envers des technologies que nous tendons a désinvestir après avoir mis trop d espoir en elles, ajoutant ainsi la techno-frustration au déboussolement moral.

Necessities for all manner of healing in the herb garden: Hyssop, Wormwood, Rue, Coriander, Pasqueflower, Rosemary, St John's Wort, Costmary, Lady's Mantle, Lady's Bedstraw, Angelica, Heartsease, Lily of the Valley, Marigold, Milk Thistle, Thyme, Sweet Woodruff. To these I plan to add, as time permits: Wood Betony, Comfrey, Coltsfoot, Cowslip, Hawthorn, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Meadowsweet, Sage, Valerian, Yarrow and Winter Savory.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

A relação da medicina com o charlatanismo é a mesma da astronomia com a astrologia. O que as estrelas predizem para os leitores de jornais é inofensivo, mas o lançamento de um ônibus espacial ou de um satélite, orientado pela astrologia, ao invés da astronomia, seria desastroso. Mas a humanidade sofre de uma fascinação eterna pelos charlatães. Talvez porque todos nós gostemos de pensar que sabemos mais do que nossos médicos.

Os gregos substituíram o Yang e o Yin por humores. O sangue, o muco, a bile amarela e a negra, a saúde dependia da harmonia disso tudo num dado momento. O médico mais importante era Galeno (c. 132-200 d.C.). Ele era um homem autoritário, com resposta pra tudo e, desse modo, estabeleceu o padrão e personalidade para nossa profissão.

A doutrina homeopática viajou para a América onde, mais tarde, foi dissecada pelo doutor Oliver Wendell Holmes como "uma mistura confusa de engenhosidade perversa, falsa erudição, credulidade imbecil e hábil deturpação". Mesmo assim, seu criador morreu milionário, em Paris.

Quando a rainha Adelaide consultou um homeopata, Guilherme IV ordenou ao médico real, Robert Keate (1777-1857): "Examine a receita que ele der a ela para ver se a rainha pode tomar sem perigo." Eu prometi fazer isso, e quando recebi a receita, eu disse: "Ah, majestade, ela pode tomar durante sete anos que, no fim desse tempo, não terá tomado nem uma grama de medicamento".

As we will soon see, it is not clear that patients gain a lot from the right to sue. At the same time, part of the current cost is passed onto patients, in the form of higher bills, and defensive medicine can be bad medicine for those who want good care.

Trees trade airborne aerosol signals, the article says. They make medicines. Their fragrances

Trees trade airborne aerosol signals, the article says. They make medicines.