Quotes About Medicine

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

I have had patients die because of lack of insurance.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

I was drawn to medicine because I'm fond of serving. In college, we go to the orphanage every week, see patients first-hand.

American patients deserve more access to quality, affordable health care.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

A doctor is a book-loaded donkey.

4 Ms are most enjoying and happy during pandemic or lockdown and they are Media news channel, Medicineres & physicians, Middleman or Profit Makers and Most rich people.

First they make medicine, vaccines, then create environment of fear amongst people and simultaneously build testing lab then increase healthcare business.

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Nature is better than a middling doctor.