“A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra” — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” — Ann Wigmore Copy Share Image
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Yes, American medicine has its pathologies, but Canada's does, too, and we need to wake up. Government controls everything here, and governments… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
If a man needs his appendix taken out, his gallbladder treated and some brain surgery as well, I don't think too many… — Bob Lavner Copy Share Image
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
“[American ambulance crews] salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital.… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
“No one would ever suggest that a report whose audience consists of medical doctors should avoid medical terminology that could not be… — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“wrote a prescription for soluble Thorazine and disposable syringes, and gave it to Chris. “Have this filled right away.” Chris handed it… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
We have arrived at socialized medicine in America. I do not report this as either a good or bad event but simply… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as… — David Agus Copy Share Image
“Seeing modern health care from the other side, I can say that it is clearly not set up for the patient. It… — Ross Donaldson Copy Share Image
![“[American ambulance crews] salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen, or doctors here.” quote by Abraham Verghese](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df5/abraham-verghese-1533_ambulance_american-ambulance-crews-salvaged-people_2880134.png)
![“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cad/nat-hentoff-1615_advise_a-woman-in-the-audience-asked-barack-oba_3075241.jpg)
