We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of… — D. C. Jarvis Copy Share Image
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
“It is strange, and perhaps sad, that medical doctors came up with this terminology when they are charged with first doing no… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.” — William Owens Copy Share Image
“doctors, for years, had opted for a treatment that systematically killed patients” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
In the United States, I am often addressed as a doctor. I should like to point out, however, that I am not… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best… — Candess M. Campbell Copy Share Image
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background… — Paul Dudley White Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course,… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
I was six years old and I had major back surgery and that paralyzed me for three months. When my back got… — Hornswoggle Copy Share Image
Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer… — Thomas Beddoes Copy Share Image
I gave my father a heart attack. It was a practical joke. Come on, you push a guy's face in a cake… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“Mayo also has standards for how its physicians communicate with one another (for instance, when paged, they must respond immediately) and how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors. — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
Doctor Doctor I keep thinking I'm a caterpillar Don't worry you'll soon change! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
“Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.” — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
“My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary. — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Oh my God, I'd love to meet the other Masters in 'Doctor Who'. They're such fantastic actors I'd be slightly in awe… — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen. — Lucy DeVito Copy Share Image
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
