Medicine Quotes · Page 59

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

— Henny Youngman

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering…

— George Eliot

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

— George Matthew Adams

“Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.”

— Rita Mae Brown

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners…

— Jesus Christ

Listening leads to better care, and your doctor should make an effort to hear you out and learn about you.

— Leana S. Wen

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

— Alastair Campbell

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

— Dikembe Mutombo

My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is…

— Will Poulter

“Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for…

— Rudolph Valentino

“Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire…

— Steven Gundry

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image…

— Paul Kalanithi

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony…

— Albert Claude

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a…

— Susanna Kaysen

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it,…

— Bernie Siegel

“We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life…

— William Osler

“Instead of only looking for which prescription or procedure can address a physical problem, as a patient you might ask yourself, “What…

— Habib Sadeghi

As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St.…

— Marlo Thomas

I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether…

— Regine Chassagne

“on without anesthesia. In a letter he describes: “I suffered agonies, as they related all to me, and did violence to myself…

— Patricia Cornwell

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

— Robert Benchley

In Milan, I'm treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It's wonderful living where artists are revered.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

— Neal Boortz

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

— Epictetus

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

— Irving Kirsch

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

— Agatha Christie

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

— Anonymous

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

— Ron Rosedale

If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemys house.

— Vikrant Parsai

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

— Keith David

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

— Steven Moffat

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

— Hasnat Khan

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our…

— Rob Van Dam

I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do…

— Magdi Yacoub

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

— Oliver Sacks