Quotes About Medicine

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares.

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so…ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during the dirty bomb scares.

War against puerperal fever. Caesarean operations. Incubators for premature births. We take life more seriously than in earlier times.

I'll never walk again, will I? I asked, looking woefully down at my ravaged feet. You will, Jesse said. Just not for a day or two. Those burns look very painful. They'll need butter. Butter? I wrinkled my nose. The best treatment for burns like those is butter, Jesse said. Uh, I said. Maybe back in 1850. Now we tend to rely on the healing power of Neosporin. There's a tube of it in my medicine cabinet behind you.

The tendency in many parts of medicine is, if we can't measure it, it doesn't exist, or the patient is cuckoo.

A man is not allowed to practise medicine unless he knows something of the human body, but a financier is allowed to operate freely without any knowledge at all of the multifarious effects of his activities, with the sole exception of the effect upon his bank account.

I find it fascinating that God healed Hezekiah through medical treatment. Obviously God did not build a wall between faith and using medicine.

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.