Medicine Quotes

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

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.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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.

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

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

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

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

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.