Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
But I believe that the huge advances now being made in genetic research will be the key to personalized medicine one day. — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
Laughing is the best medicine.But if you're laughing for no reason, you may need medicine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,'… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I was going to kill that doctor when he shoved his finger up my ass but then I realized the possibilities of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor!' Doctor… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I wish that the cure for cancer was as simple as a hug, because then we could all be doctors. — Jacob Barnes Copy Share Image
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It now appears most of us need about 5,000 units a day if we avoid the sun. The government was off by… — John Cannell, MD Copy Share Image
We need more physicians on air. We understand the human being, experience and condition, and we need to be using media to… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients,… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job? — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people… — Al Gore Copy Share Image