Quotes About Medicine

We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.

I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

We think machine learning, as it relates to healthcare and life sciences, is extraordinary.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

For many children, it's seeing a beloved relative ill and in pain that leads them to want to become doctors. But, for me, it was watching my grandma get better.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I couldn't do science. I was hopeless at chemistry.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Hospitals are about healing.

We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Humor is healing.

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lies restless in the grave.

gave Mr. Davis belladonna to stop the pain—

A secure future seemed mapped out for me. Too secure, too mapped out. If I carried on in medicine, I realized I'd have a pretty good idea exactly what I'd be doing ten, twenty and even thirty years from that moment. It struck me like a halibut from the North Sea that that was not the way my life should go at all. What was the point of working on through the age of sixty-five and taking a chance on a better reincarnation next time?

Dr Hasselbacher never talked in terms of morality; it was outside the province of a doctor.

Medicine, academia, politics, social philosophy, capitalism, even religion all consistently miss the mark. If we base our lives on their precepts, we, too, will miss the mark of our highest calling. The greatest pursuit is not good health, unsurpassed wisdom, economic surplus, political freedom, or even faith that can move mountains. Unconditional, nonjudgmental loving. This is our aim, life's single highest and most rewarding pursuit.

chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression.

One of those useless machines they used to make," he finally began, "was called an MRI.

amateur gynecology.