Quotes About Medicine

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Chiropractic is a science just so far as it is specific.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.