Medicine Quotes · Page 64

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

— Richard Selzer

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

— Patch Adams

“If I remember correctly, I called you an asshole doctor." "That's no more than the truth... except I'm not a proctologist.”

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean…

— Marianne Faithfull

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

— Anonymous

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

— William Osler

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

— Rudolf Virchow

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend…

— Chanakya

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to…

— Thomas Jefferson

What makes the EpiPen unique is its delivery vehicle - an auto-injector that's packaged in a convenient, pen-like device. The product's key…

— Scott Gottlieb

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most…

— Linus Pauling

There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these…

— Jay Leno

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society…

— Florence Nightingale

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and…

— Eugene O'Neill

I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor's biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek.…

— Bradley Walsh

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's…

— Betty Shabazz

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just…

— John Green

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict…

— Benjamin Rush

“Two other patients were waiting for their doctors, which only added to my sense of indignity and embarrassment at finding myself with…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited “disruptive innovation,” today it’s often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient…

— Robert Wachter

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing…

— Harvey Mackay

Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you,…

— Atul Gawande

As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and…

— Jill Stein

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a…

— S. Jay Olshansky

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

— Anonymous

Given where medicine is today, there may not be any traditional injuries that aren't repairable.

— Oliver Luck

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his…

— William Shakespeare

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

— Ovid

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

— Bernie Siegel

Teens moms, calling yourself a mother because you gave birth is calling me a doctor because I own Band-aids.

— Anonymous

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

— P. T. Barnum

I think you can tell different types of stories within a 'Doctor Who' two-parter.

— Chris Chibnall

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

— Bernard Marcus

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

— Boyd K. Packer

There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.

— Dean Ornish

Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.

— Joe Williams

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

— William Harvey

I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.

— Steve Martin

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician…

— Billy Eckstine

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer