Medicine Quotes

Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

The medicine increases the disease.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

We cannot be damaged into health.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.