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Quotes About Medicine

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.
~ B. J. Palmer
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
~ Alexander Fleming
How many times have I heard you Whirlwind guys say that even now, after all these years of research, nobody knows why one supercell spawns a tornado and another doesn't? Why wouldn't that be the case for people too? Every brain is different and responds differently to treatment, and what might not help one person, for instance holistic medicine, might help the next.
~ Jenna Blum
It's a telling example of how basic owl science has boosted human medicine—and how an owl's eyes and ears work together.
~ Jennifer Ackerman
What they don't understand is that obstetricians are surgeons, and they know pathology, but they really suck at wellness." They are trained to sew up a tear, but not to prevent one.
~ Jennifer Block
Maybe we shared an impatience with small talk, being a heart surgeon and a drug counselor. The body and its needs: the thing itself.
~ Jennifer Egan
He could have cured cancer by now, if he'd never gotten high.
~ Jennifer Haigh
The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.
~ Emma Donoghue
Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As
~ Emma Donoghue
All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine - making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria - and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.
~ Emma Donoghue
These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.
~ Emma Donoghue
Here we are in the golden age of medicine—making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria—and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow. No, you're the ones who matter right now. Attentive nurses, I mean—tender loving care, that seems to be all that's saving lives.
~ Emma Donoghue
If the labouring woman turned on her right, the uterus might compress the vena cava and reduce blood flow to her heart.)
~ Emma Donoghue
The [Republican] party's mainstream option was probably voiced by Massachusetts Congressman Henry L. Dawes, who admitted the medicine was extreme but asked whether any alternative existed: Am I to abandon the attempt to secure to the American citizen these rights, given to him by the Constitution? [Note: in reference to Enforcement Acts of 1870/71]
~ Eric Foner
Ayurveda is not just a few medicines or a few scriptures, but a holistic total lifestyle deeply involved with yoga, meditation, food habits and epigenetic social cultures.
~ Amit Ray
Here. Motrin and water. You'll feel better. Or you'll throw up. Either way you'll feel better.
~ Amy Lane
between her lips. Then squirt the medicine into her cheek. Withdraw the syringe, and hold her mouth closed until you see her swallow.
~ Amy Shojai
After you apply the ointment, salve or other medicine to the skin problem, distract the kitten with a game. Play with a feather or fishing-pole toy for ten to fifteen minutes, to allow the medicine to be absorbed.
~ Amy Shojai
if a woman healed a person with a combination of herbs she learned from her mother, it was called witchcraft or at best "folk medicine," but if a man, with a medical degree, using the same herbs, healed a person, it was called medicine.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Two measures of wine send the doctor away, and four brings him back.
~ Ancient Egyptian
Other women take the pill and don't get pregnant. I take the pill and get a mustache and beard.
~ Andi Rhoads
The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
~ Andrew Cuomo
You can actually take a weekend course in cosmetic surgery.
~ Paul Nassif