Quotes About Medicine

My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

Throughout our history we have been tireless advocates for expanding access to high-quality, affordable medicine. This is especially true in the area of HIV/AIDS.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

A family's love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.

The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

He was just the sort of man to have faith in leeches. Leeches, and licorice, and cod-liver oil.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. —PROVERBS 17:22

Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.

he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread

Adding sugar to a wound will greatly reduce the pain and speed up the healing process.

Goody's headache powder.

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

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!

the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a-man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bill like everything.

Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie.

The doctor's job was to shut up long enough to let the patient be the most important person in the room, because she was. There was an unforced and absolutely real respect for people just because they were people. And we, as doctors, were their servants. For all the things that felt wrong, that felt right. If you weren't an idealist, why would you go to medical school?