Medicine Quotes

A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

In our society, unless something can be measured then it doesn't exist. This is especially true in the world of medicine.

...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

Doctors are allowed to practice medicine. What are you called when you are not practicing any more and finally know what your doing?

With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.

What are called viruses are always dead and incapable of any acts whatsoever. Dead matter may be acted upon but never acts of itself.

There is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife

The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God’s medicine is the answer to every need.

Do what is right, and do it now.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

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

When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.

To confront death every day, to see it for yourself, you have to love the living

It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

Sometimes it's the person giving you the medicine who's making you sick.

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?The patients get better and leave.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings... and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character... forever.

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

If the cardiologist thinks the heart is a wonderful organ, the cardiologist never have heard of the uterus.

Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both worlds.

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

Without the patient, there is no healthcare.

Indeed, this crisis was also spurred by the abandonment of professional ideals in the pursuit of profit that made managed care necessary in the first place.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time.

My book contains texts that I wrote during college, medical school and during my residency of neurosurgery. I could set the book �Thoughts from the hospital" as clippings thoughts

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!

Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper that can stop a gushing razor cut in its tracks.

Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body's oxygen cycle.

One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

Every medicine is vain.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...

I don't like people much, and I like doctors even less.

First do no harm. -HippocratesSecond, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

A little toxin is the best tonic.

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.