Medical Quotes

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.