Medicine Quotes · Page 104

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

— Anonymous

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

— Bernard Lown

“God only knows what the doctor gave her. However,the medication has run out and she now must face the reality on her…

— Nancy B. Brewer

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

— Anonymous

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

— E. Cheraskin

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

— Tu Youyou

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is so much information on diagnostics and treatments - one person cannot possibly know everything. A good doctor is one who…

— Leana S. Wen

In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden…

— Oren Etzioni

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen…

— James Chanos

When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should…

— Lily Collins

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but…

— Patch Adams

“To say the truth, every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.”

— Henry Fielding

I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance…

— Betty White

This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Disclaimer: This book is not intended to provide treatment for any disease, disability, or medical condition. It is not a substitute for…

— Anonymous

I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because…

— Francis Collins

But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

“The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe.…

— Joseph Lewis

A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without…

— Anthony Trollope

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare…

— Harriet Martineau

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“What makes the situation so outrageous is that the healthcare industry has traditionally encouraged the American public to be passive consumers—to wait…

— Elaine R. Ferguson

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

— Burn Gorman

Whether you're a man or a woman, you should get the same degree of healthcare from our VA.

— Ryan Zinke

I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.

— Christian Finnegan

Both my parents are doctors, but I'm passionate about dance and have always wanted to act since I was a child.

— Radhika Apte

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,

— Jean Sibelius

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

— Robert Trout

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a…

— Yahya Jammeh

“Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.”

— Tom Swyers

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

— Jimmy Carter

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

— Michael J. Knowles

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

— Ambrose Bierce

“doctor says u think too much,i said she lives in my mind too much !”

— pratik nandgaonkar

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

— Orison Swett Marden

“It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society”

— Samuel Shem

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin