Medicine Quotes

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

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.

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.

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.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

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

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Patience is the best medicine.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Music really is our daily medicine.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.