Medical Quotes

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

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.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.