Medicine Quotes

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.