“I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way...… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
“Let me through – I’m a doctor.’ My heart beat a little faster, and I lingered just long enough to be sure… — Melody Malone Copy Share Image
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine;… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike many other illnesses, what I find profoundly empowering about addressing loneliness is that the ultimate solution to loneliness lies in each… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“According to a recent report drafted by thirty-nine physicians from the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and endorsed by some… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the… — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting,… — Simone Giertz Copy Share Image
Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Testing unnecessary, expensive medicines from the pharmacy so that writes can get a commission! There can be no objection, the doctor is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients,… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window.… — Michelle Au Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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