Quotes About Medicine

Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their Fees, "There is no Cure for this Disease."

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

When doctors don't know what is causing a disease or how to cure it, they call it a syndrome. When sociologists don't know what is causing a problem or how to cure it, they call it systemic.

Dr. Deanna Adkins of Duke University School of Medicine claims that gender identity is "the only medically supported determinant of sex," adding, "It is counter to medical science to use chromosomes, hormones, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia, or secondary sex characteristics to override gender identity for purposes of classifying someone as male or female.

The government hiring workers would require paying money for doctors – and the left argues that doctors already make too much money. And the left won't argue openly for what they would prefer: forcing people to practice medicine for patients deemed worthy by the government

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

which may include depression, paranoia, delirium, and seizures.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.

In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

When we first isolated PD-1, we didn't know what the function of this molecule would be. But while we were working on it for almost 10 years, we realized this is a very important molecule to regulate the immune system.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.