Medicine Quotes
the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body
Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren’t as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter.
The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea, ' to quote Gandhi.
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.
All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties.
I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me.
I shall tell you about God once you've reached your imaginary heaven. Then, give me a call.
What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.
Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.
In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.
Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is a permanent state of flux.
But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.
Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.
Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.
From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great!
I understand Medicine, Forensics... I can learn it in the frame of 1-2 years... No Problem in that.
Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.
Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
An infantryman’s job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc’s job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, “Not today.
When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.
For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?
Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you leave. Out here.
Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.
...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.
Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.
Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.
To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone
But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know where the problems lay.
In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine so complex and fascinating.
He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
As pervasive as medicine has become in modern life, it remains mostly hidden and often misunderstood. We have taken it to be both more perfect than it is and less extraordinary than it can be.
Lord, give me strength and ability to understand when I can heal, but give me the wisdom to understand when my profession is useless.
Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.