Quotes About Medicine

The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet—and this is the painful paradox—we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

There are no incurable diseases only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs only the lack of knowledge.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

You cannot be a good doctor without pity.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Away from home, in the foreign strand, one's knowledge is one's best friend, inside home one's wife is one's best friend. For a patient the first friend is efficacious medicine while after death one's Dharma is one's best friend.

This variable composition of man's body hath made it as an instrument easy to distemper; and, therefore, the poets did well to conjoin music and medicine in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

I want cancer rates to fall.

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.