Quotes About Medicine

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.