Quotes About Medicine

Mr. Passaro, let me teach you about how medicine works." He starts out. "One of two things is going to happen. Either the Doctors are going to say I told you so, or they are going to say that Jess was the exception. What you believe will determine who gets to say I told you so to whom." "Never stop believing." He begs me. "Doctor, you are on the team". I say. He smiles.

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of course when that time comes, in all probability, the credit will be given to vaccination.

Cirocco protested that she could walk, but Titanide ideas of medicine included much cuddling, body warmth, and songs of reassurance.

that the old man should insist upon his son studying medicine and surgery, when every one knows he will inherit at least ten thousand a-year.'—'Nothing to do with it,' was the argument of the father; 'who can tell what is to happen to funded, or even landed property, in England? The empire of disease takes in the world; and in all its quarters, medical knowledge may be made the key to competency and wealth.

The majority of diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic laws. They seem indifferent in regard to the matter of health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.—

Atul Gawande writes in his book Complications, it is instead "an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, [and] fallible individuals." Every individual is different, every pathogen is different, and therefore it should necessarily follow that every treatment strategy should be different. Yet, in modern medicine, this is rarely the case; Western medicine is embedded within institutionalized and standardized health care.

I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don't have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that's what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.

As a matter of research, a patient's confidence will actually help block more pain signals to the brain than the morphine-medicine itself. What does that say to you? Our fears make us hurt a lot more than we actually do. And our confidence reduces our pain—we don't hurt as much as we should.

In my opinion, a great many doctors in this kingdom should be hanged, drawn, and quartered. They are all too likely to hand out dangerous medicines—to women, in particular—without a thought for what it does to the body and spirit.

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

Many books have been written on these types of healing. For further reading, I suggest the following books: The Science of Homeopathy by George Vithoulkas, M.D., Dimensions of Radionics by David Tansely, M.D., Chiropractic, A Modern Way to Health by Julius Dontenfass, M.D., Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements by Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.

All human temperaments were considered to belong to one or another of the four humors—sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.

He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill.

There was no doubt what must be done—the law was clear. Written centuries ago, the Lex Caesare decreed that if any woman died while pregnant, the living child was to be immediately cut out of her abdomen. This poor girl, whose name no one knew, was certain to die; but the baby inside her lived and must be given a chance to survive.      Selene was fearful. She had never before performed a Caesarean-law operation.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.

The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. They announced today that they have settled on Mycoxafloppin.

A European physician has said something new about love. He has discovered that it is good for the nerves. It would seem to follow that, in case of nerve trouble, it ought to be prescribed.

Medicine cabinets are dangerous . Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.