Quotes About Medicine

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

There are no issues more personal than prescription drugs and the high prices Americans must pay to get the medicine they need.

Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.

Drugs should be available for cheap prices for patients.

The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.

Most people, when they think about going into medicine, they think they have to give up their lives, and I was the prime example that you didn't need to do that.

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

I'm very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.

Medicine is no longer looking at organs. It looks at the processes inside the cell.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

I would have loved to study medicine, but I was lucky to have come into the profession that I loved. I may not have been very good at it, but I loved it.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.