Quotes About Medicine

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

Great quotes are like great medicine; they can cure us when we are down—written in 2008 by Jay Xiong

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.

The contrast between economics and medicine is striking:

Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.

Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.

The greatest mischief of medicine has occurred because life was not honored. Women have been robbed of the glory of their own bodies with, in recent times, removal and mutilation of reproductive organs and breasts, and the treatment of natural passages of life -- birthing, menstruation, menopause -- as disease.

Plant spirit medicine is the shaman's way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

There is only one active ingredient in plant medicines: friendship. A plant spirit heals a patient as a favor to its friend-in-dreaming, the doctor.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

La medicina tiene sus límites, realidad que no se enseña en la facultad. Otra realidad que no se enseña es que un corazón compasivo puede sanar casi todo

Pasados unos meses observé que muchos médicos evitaban rutinariamente referirse a cualquier cosa que tuviera que ver con la muerte. A los enfermos moribundos se los trataba tan mal como a mis pacientes psiquiátricos del hospital estatal. Se los rechazaba y maltrataba. Nadie era sincero con ellos. Si un enfermo de cáncer preguntaba ¿Me voy a morir?, el médico le contestaba ¡Oh, no! no diga tonterías.

mi trabajo con las enfermas esquizofrénicas me había demostrado que existe un poder sanador que trasciende los medicamentos, que trasciende la ciencia, y eso era lo que yo llevaba cada día a las salas del hospital.

La medicina tiene sus límites, realidad qe no se enseña en la facultad. Otra realidad que no se enseña es qe un corazón compaisvo puede sanar casi todo. Unos cuantos meses en el campo me convencieron de que ser buen médico no tiene nada que ver con anatomía, cirugía ni con recetar los medicamentos correctos. El mejor servicio que un médico puede prestar a un enfermo es ser una persona amable, atenta, cariñosa y sensible.

I learned a lot about medicine in those years, but I learned more about human nature. I learned about bravery and resilience, about the many forms of grief, and especially about the importance of the little things in one's life. I've said many times that nursing taught me the value of the "little" things that individuate and define our lives—the things that ultimately make it worth living.

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this? I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world? Nothing. Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

The bright red sap of the fei plant is meant to be useful for blood ailments." "The signature of all things," Alma murmured.

Affection as medicine is highly overrated...a person who is as sick with depression as I most certainly was cannot possibly be rescued through the power of anyone's love.

make medicines against pain, the chief enemy of man. Pain, and the absence of sleep, which is the most beneficent remedy for pain.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Today such news would galvanize the Medical Corps, but in 1918 it attracted only a modicum of attention.

Good food is wise medicine.