Medicine Quotes · Page 88

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

— Rawi Hage

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized…

— James B. Utt

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

— Wernher von Braun

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things.”

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

“The doctor lifted the bottle. “Thank you,” said Felix. “I never drink spirits.” “You will,” said the doctor.”

— Djuna Barnes

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies"…

— Gerald Jonas

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but…

— William P. Leahy

I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if…

— Alber Elbaz

“Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?” the doctor asked. “Help us, oh God, it hurts,” the boxes of cotton screamed. “Not…

— Denis Johnson

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go…

— Margaret Thatcher

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and…

— Atul Gawande

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“medicine is undergoing a tremendous conceptual revolution. Twentieth-century medicine aimed to heal the sick. Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman…

— Helen H. Gardener

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring…

— Jack LaLanne

“Adding social structural analysis to medical and public health education would move toward a more realistic and balanced version of the biopsychosocial…

— Seth Holmes

“Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going?…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of…

— Michelle Stacey

“It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest…

— Charles C Harpe

“Do you know why you’re here?' the doctor said. Clumsiness. Clumsiness is the first and then we have a list: lazy, wayward,…

— Joanne Greenberg

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

— Anonymous

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor…

— Suleika Jaouad

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

— Abraham Verghese

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

— Euripides

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

— Steve Martin

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

— Dave Barry

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

— Michael Hyatt

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

— Sophocles

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

— Andy Borowitz

As a doctor, my thing is, we need to have access to medications; we need to have reasonable prices for medications.

— Mikhail Varshavski

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

— Paracelsus

Not from my point of view…[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

— Rudy Giuliani

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

— Robert Holden

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

— Andrew Weil