Quotes About Medical

My doctor has never mandated I do anything, ever. It's one of the reasons I trust him so much.

Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.

The most critical key to getting good medial care is a trusting relationship between you and your doctor.

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.

We really should get some X-rays," the EMT said. "You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts," I said to the EMT.

Something's nibbling my spleen!

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as '4's'?

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only if they trust that it serves societal interests, respects patient dignity and operates with guardrails.

We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows.

My real problem isn't in my throat or kidneys. The doctor should have operated on my heart instead.

I went back to my medical information. I learned that my body would think it was pregnant [on the pill]. There would now be yet another part of myself that would not know what was really going on.

Matt was strapped to a bed in a room full of alarming machinery.

At one point Willum and two strange doctors appeared and proceeded to poke Matt's stomach and take his blood. They untied him so he could pee into a bottle

I rather dread doctors at one's age, it always seems to me they take one look at you, cry cancer & remove several important portions of your anatomy. (p89)

According to a 2009 Harvard Medical School study, as many as 45,000 people die annually in the United States because they lack health insurance. As one of the study's coauthors pointed out, this works out to about one death every twelve minutes. It's

Some identical twins are recorded as fraternal at birth, and fraternal ones as identical. A genetic test can easily reveal the true nature of newborn twins, but doctors apparently don't bother with it much. In a 2004 study in Japan, researchers found that hospitals misclassify as many as 30 percent of twins. In the Netherlands, researchers tested the DNA of 327 pairs of twins and then asked their parents what kind of twins they were. Nineteen percent of the parents gave the wrong answer.

Unburdened by any medical knowledge, what would they think of Karen's strange ramblings? The answer came quickly enough. They would think she was making it up. What an imagination, they would say. And if it all went a stage further? Would they see this as genuine derangement, as he had done? Probably not. They would say she'd been watching too much telly. Or eating cheese before bedtime.

In a conventional medical treatment, the patient follows a program prescribed by the physician, so that the responsibility for healing lies with the doctor.