Quotes About Medicine

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

The two primary factors in these deaths are nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections11 and medical errors.

The Hippocratic Oath is deadly silent on communication between doctor and patient relevant to the patient's treatment.

there is the chance that smartphones will democratize medicine. That will ultimately be achieved when each individual has unfettered, direct access to all of their own health data and information. Or captured by the popular mantra "nothing about me, without me.

Based on this sort positive data, Leonard Kish, a health information technologist, has rightfully called the engaged patient the "blockbuster drug of the century."15

the engaged patient the "blockbuster drug of the century.

the idea of going down to your doctor's office is going to feel as foreign as going to the video store.

Half of American physicians are over age fifty-five, far removed from digital native status (under age 30) and any propensity for adopting little wireless devices for their practice of medicine. Nevertheless,

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

Whats the matter?" Jayfeather muttered " Afraid i might give you some medicine?

To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice...

Don't you know medicine cats don't have kits?" hissed Yellowfang furiously. "But I heard you were a warrior before that," Firepaw ventured. "I have no kits!" Yellowfang spat. She snatched her tail away from him and sat up. "Anyway"—her voice suddenly lowered, and she sounded almost wistful—"accidents seem to happen to kits when I'm around them.

You'll know if she's doing them right," the medicine cat called over her shoulder, "because she'll complain!

Leafpool picked up her bundle and bounded off through the trees. Bramblestar watched her go, more glad than he could express that she was ThunderClan's medicine cat once more.

Cloudberry, how she came from RiverClan after the ThunderClan medicine cat Ravenwing was murdered.

He's been bitten," he told Alderheart, adding with a sniff, "by a squirrel.

Do you think I'm never wrong? You must trust your own judgement. Believe me, Leafpaw, one day you will make a wonderful medicine cat--perhaps even as good as Spottedleaf.

Brackenfur's purring faltered and his eyes looked troubled. "You should have been with me," he murmured, gently nosing her injured leg. "No, I'm fine as I am," Cinderpaw insisted. "You'll have to be a warrior for both of us. And I'll have to settle for being the greatest medicine cat this forest has ever seen!

A little pain can be useful, as it will help me judge how well she is healing. - Spottedleaf

Wherever you are, Cinderpelt," she mewed out loud, "if you can hear me, I promise that I will never leave our Clan again. I am their medicine cat now, and I will follow in your pawsteps until it's my turn to walk with StarClan." Hesitating, she added, "But please, if I ever meant anything to you, come to me when you can and tell me you forgive me.