Quotes About Medical

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor... If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can't expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

I'm not a claustrophobe, but you don't need to be to feel claustrophobic inside an MRI. It's like being buried alive.

There's a big difference between apps that help you manage your medical information and draw clues from your own bodies, and those that seek to actively doctor you.

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

No matter where I go, the number one concern I hear from Mainers is health care.

I don't know many people without pre-existing conditions.

If children cannot see, they cannot learn; if they have untreated medical conditions, they cannot focus in school.

In the dissection of the muscles, attention should be directed to the exact origin, insertion, and actions of each, and to its more important relations with surrounding parts.

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.

Around a quarter of cancers eventually spread to the brain. As people live longer, their risk of developing cancer increases; as cancer survival rates improve, their risk of developing secondary tumours in the brain increases. We can therefore expect increasing numbers of brain-tumour patients.

Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn't believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby, stopped breathing and turned blue, her mother revived her by spanking her on the bottom. She saw life itself as a gift and saw her own survival as precious and a matter of chance.

I've had three young children close to me - my nephew, niece and my god-daughter - born into the world needing life-saving machines to help them survive.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

I always tell people if you think you are susceptible to a blood clot, go check with your doctor.

I don't care how much I sweat, I am never doing that operation to kill the sweat glands.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

My chest problem was a major worry because it was exactly the same symptoms as a heart attack.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.