If you have a sickness, you gotta fix that sickness, but you can't keep putting somebody into treatment over and over and… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. — William James Copy Share Image
It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If you put your faith in the modern health care system, then there is a very good chance that they will prematurely… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I almost did 'Doctor Strange.' I went in to do a session to play Dormammu. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
“often it is not “the pill in the hand, but the hand behind the pill” that helps our patients feel better [6].” — Richard Colgan Copy Share Image
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus,… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen.… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“Physicians are so good at what they do these days that you hardly ever see anyone who’s healthy” is how he ended… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to… — Bruce Vento Copy Share Image
Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“You learn it when you become a doctor. Not in school—that isn’t where you learn, in any case—but when you lay your… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term 'holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“the artery supplying the front (anterior) wall of Cheney’s heart, the left anterior descending (LAD), did not have significant narrowing. Absent a… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
When you're confined to a hospital bed, there aren't many appointments you can make. You await visits from friends and family members.… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
“This skewing of physicians' thinking leads to poor care. What is remarkable is not merely the consequences of a doctor's negative emotions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” — William Osler Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. — Sophie Aldred Copy Share Image
Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
Medicine is no longer looking at organs. It looks at the processes inside the cell. — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible. — Herophilos Copy Share Image
“For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go… — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope. — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is really close to my heart, and I felt like I was a part of it at the best time,… — Clive Standen Copy Share Image
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