An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. — Andrew Taylor Still Copy Share Image
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. — Democritus Copy Share Image
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
We will carry out reforms of the medical and nursing care systems with the citizens' perspective in mind in order to realize… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
“Clinical handovers are high-risk situations for patient safety. Errors lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, unnecessary tests and treatments, incorrect patient… — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in… — Ed McCabe Copy Share Image
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent… — Leon Chaitow Copy Share Image
“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Whether it's making sure that a person has access to a doctor when they need one, investing in excellent first class educations… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
“Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine. In the early twentieth century, you needed only a high school diploma and a one-year… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, 'You can't do that! We need… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
“I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
There exists in every person a place that is free from disease, that never feels pain, that cannot age or die. When… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
“That’s the one thing I think my head doctor might be right about. There’s no going back. So we might as well… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me. — Gerald Green Copy Share Image
I was intubated, I was on a ventilator with a tracheotomy, I mean, there were so many things going on. — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Every philanthropist has a soft corner for one issue. For me it is health, because my father was a doctor. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding. — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care. — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them--when they were so stiff they were almost dead. — Richard M. Schulze Copy Share Image
Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
![“In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have…” quote by Ben Goldacre](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/84e/ben-goldacre-9578_appeals_in-the-past-medicalization-has-been-port_921552.png)
