“The doctor had been dousing her hands with a sort of ointment they use, scented like bad gin. It is a ritual… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?” — Theresa Brown Copy Share Image
When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic… — Robert Berkow Copy Share Image
Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact… — Franz Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop… — India Arie Copy Share Image
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as… — Plato Copy Share Image
I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Physicians from all over the world came not only to work for the Institute and to attend lectures there, but also to… — Charlotte Wolff, M.D Copy Share Image
At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
“Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“-And I'm sorry too. -For what? -For calling you an asshole doctor. -That's okay. -Even though, technically, that is what you are.” — Astrid Amara Copy Share Image
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people. — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
“We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway.” — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do. — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Given where medicine is today, there may not be any traditional injuries that aren't repairable. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
