Quotes About Medicine

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

I was a little bit of a precocious kid, in the sense I loved reading, and I loved health and - my dad being a doctor - I really wanted to learn more about how the body worked.

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.

We all pay too much for health care. Far too many do not go to the doctor or fill a prescription because it simply costs too much.

When sick, the ability to afford a prescription - or whether your plan offers the coverage you need - should be the last thing on your mind.

Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.