Quotes About Medicine

Si Dios es el médico supremo de los males del alma, la naturaleza es el remedio soberano.

Being a physician is like working on a machine that keeps breaking down, time after time.

3. Paul Enright, "A Homeopathic Remedy for Early COPD," Respiratory Medicine 105 (2011): 1573–75.

It should be understood that doctors did not want to damage their patients—as a profession they were sworn to do no harm—but if they committed dastardly acts, they were more easily pardoned if something positive had come of the exercise. Experiments on humans were usually excused if the results of the study were substantial, the process had an element of science to it, and the physicians were correct in their expectations. 19

Doctors quickly discovered that access to institutionalized populations could springboard them to lucrative contracts with drug companies and great wealth. The financial incentives became so enticing that some physicians gave up their private practices to conduct large-scale clinical trials full time. 10

La ignorancia es la más dulce de las medicinas.

the human body is its own best apothecary and because the most successful prescriptions are filled by the body itself.

Can we teach people to accomplish the same thing by teaching them how the placebo really works?

Acaso el diagnóstico médico de nuestros tiempos modernos no equivale en realidad a un maleficio vudú?

It's the same with placebos: What we're conditioned to believe will happen when we take a pill, and what we think that everyone around us (including our doctors) expects will happen when we do, affects how our bodies respond to the pill.

Could it be that many drugs or even surgeries actually work better because we're repeatedly primed, educated, and conditioned to believe in their effects—when if it weren't for the placebo effect, those drugs might not work as well or at all?

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.

As a school nurse, she had always modeled herself on Mary Poppins, aiming for an air of good-tempered calm, self-assurance, a tolerance for play, but an expectation that the medicine would go down along with the spoonful of sugar. If the kids thought it was possible she might break into song and shoot fireworks from the tip of her umbrella, that was all right with her. Such

Are you sure I can't have a little sniff of Oxy?" the doctor asked. He brightened. "I'd share. We could get fucked up together.

Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, makes the medicine go dow-own – cantou ela com uma voz embargada de emoção. Só uma colherinha de açúcar ajuda o remédio a descer.

Left one for you, kiddo, he imagined the fat man telling him. Marshall's skull grinned with small, sharp, slanting teeth. Might come in handy. You never know. In another couple days, when you're too weak to stand, it might be just what the doctor ordered. Swallow one as needed for pain and call me never.

Doctors and nurses saved me from the big, dark plunge, and I didn't thank Jesus when I came around. I thanked the medical staff, their years of schooling, their tremendous skills. I always figured if I was a doctor and I saved some person's life, and the first thing they said when they came around was "Thank Jesus," I would have wanted to stick a pair of forceps up their ass and tell them to see if Jesus could yank those out for them.

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The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

No sheth an sary' (No herb shall heal like blood on the steel)

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much television as you think you might, and the power of television is enormous.