Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way,… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
After high school, I attended the Virginia Military Institute and then Eastern Virginia Medical School - both great public schools that prepared… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent… — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
For patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done,… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was trained in Ayurveda, a system of traditional medicine that dates back to the ancient Vedic period in… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about war: it's never enough to disable the buildings, to blow holes into their middles; instead, they're hit over… — Izzeldin Abuelaish Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine… — Marcia Angell 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
Hope has a great power. Hope can be the only driving force of life. When we face failures, hope can be medicine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the "continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming." This basso continuo thrums along while… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
“Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the “father” of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences.… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be… — Peter Orszag Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself,… — Georg Groddeck Copy Share Image
To me, supplements are a necessity, not a luxury. I think of them as medicine: Instead of asking a doctor to prescribe… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
In Britain, we ought to be in a position where doctors and therapists are able to prescribe mindfulness, acupuncture, osteopathy de rigueur,… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
“I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
“evidence shows that physicians consistently think their patients are feeling less pain than they actually are. Without being in a state of… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
