Quotes About Medicine

A very popular recent book on the subject is Love, Medicine, and Miracles by the Yale surgeon Bernie Siegel (New York: Harper & Row, 1986).

It is appropriate to designate Freud as the grandfather of psychosomatic medicine since his genius introduced us to the world of the unconscious mind, a contribution to medical science of inestimable importance. Psychosomatic processes begin in the unconscious and, though it has yet to be widely appreciated by either physical or psychiatric medicine, unconscious emotions are a potent factor in virtually all physical ills.

Love, Medicine, and Miracles by the Yale surgeon Bernie Siegel (New York: Harper & Row, 1986). Dr. Siegel began his career as a surgeon, became aware of the social and psychological dimensions of cancer, and began to work with patients accordingly. His book is highly inspirational and, because of its popularity, has introduced many people to the idea that the mind can be mobilized to combat cancer.

Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

He dipped his finger in it and tasted. "Bitter," he said. "That's a good sign," Jesper said knowingly. They all looked at him. "Medicine is supposed to taste bad," he explained. "The worse it tastes, the better it is for you. Everyone knows that.

Bitter," he said. "That's a good sign," Jesper said knowingly. They all looked at him. "Medicine is supposed to taste bad," he explained. "The worse it tastes, the better it is for you. Everyone knows that.

First Do No Harm,24

There's certainly nothing wrong with taking medicine, but if you can achieve the same results through exercise, you build confidence in your own ability to cope.

Exercise Is Medicine," so

Chronic stress is linked to some of our most deadly diseases.

With all the advances in medicine and technology, why has someone not created a pill that cures heartbreak? Emotional penicillin. Why has someone not invented software that will sweep all traces of your ex out of your brain or an app that eliminates unrequited love?

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

I'm an M.D. A shitty one, but sometimes shitty is better than nothing. I'll do what I have to do.

Throughout history, certain doctors have done terrible things. It's never nice to be reminded.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

If I only could be a doctor!" she cried. "I believe it would be even better than being a sailor. Couldn't I be a doctor?" "Certainly not!" said Dr. Ozanne with twinkling eyes. "You're a woman, my dear, and women are not doctors, and never will be, thank God. A woman's place is in the home, doing needlework and enjoying delicate health.

we're willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos

Generally, pharmacists know a lot more about drugs than doctors do.

Aristotle, we must remember, was a doctor's son.

Using one's eyes and ears and sense of touch to diagnose ailments and complaints, and judge the course of a disease or its cure, was in a sense a family tradition. According to the great Greek doctor Galen,‡ Asclepid families also taught their sons dissection.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.