One reason for high health care costs is that patients fail to follow their treatment regimen. — Richard Thaler 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
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
I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain… — Anonymous 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
Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
“Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
“Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that energy medicine is a practice of healing that is dependent upon the energy of time. Whereas… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“The Doctor and Donna see each other across the room The Doctor: Donna? Donna: Doctor! The Doctor: What are, what are you—?… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency.… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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