Quotes About Medical

Lastly, these findings tell me that the answer to the question of whether, as a group, MDs are primarily patient-serving or self-serving is . . . yes. They are each, depending on their attentional focus at the time.

Whole Foods announced it would be cutting medical benefits for its entire part-time workforce—at a total annual savings of what Bezos himself made in two hours.

In May 2010, Wakefield and Walker-Smith were found guilty and had their medical licenses revoked. Murch was found not guilty. Wakefield is unrepentant. He has since published a book entitled Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy (2010) with an introduction by actress Jenny McCarthy. (McCarthy denies that she is anti-vaccine. She claims she is pro safe vaccine, yet she seems to think there is no such thing as a safe vaccine.)

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...

With all the changes in medicine, many medical specialists are needing to conform to medical organizations such as HMOs.

Yeah, I'm just a medical marvel, and I'm taking my marvelous ass home.

I was still left with having to peel the tape off my arm, and the IV itself had to come out, mustn't forget that. "If you want it fast, I'll do it," Edward said. I nodded, and he ripped the tape off my arm along with the IV. "Ow!" He smiled. "Sissy." "Sociopath." Doctor

The doctors tied me back together with twine... They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots

I had been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in my early thirties, when most doctors didn't even know it existed. Symptoms include sudden weight gain (check), irregular periods (check), chin hair (check), high triglyceride levels (check), and, the kicker, insulin resistance (check, check, check).

I got my heart checked, report says it's perfectly normal, there is no trace of love in it

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

I'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.