Medicine Quotes · Page 79

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...

— Terry Pratchett

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

— Matt Czuchry

Both my parents are doctors, but I'm passionate about dance and have always wanted to act since I was a child.

— Radhika Apte

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

— W. C. Fields

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

— Erin Hunter

“Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have…

— Anthony Hecht

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

— Sienna Guillory

Doctor, Doctor you've taken out my tonsils, my adenoids, my gall bladder, my varicose veins and my appendix, but I still don't…

— Nikhil Saluja

“It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly…

— James Harpole

We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of…

— Frederick Lenz

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it…

— Anonymous

“Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor…

— Ian Fleming

“To treat disease you need medical license, To treat injustice being human is enough. To fly a plane you need pilot's license,…

— Abhijit Naskar

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This…

— Jacob M. Appel

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look…

— Sandra Cisneros

As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons…

— Walter Bradford Cannon

“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He…

— Ben Marcus

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are…

— Hippocrates

Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce…

— Fred Alan Wolf

An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold…

— Thomas Pogge

Daleks: [simultaneously] Exterminate! Exterminate! [They fire their weapons, none of which so much as touch the Doctor] The Doctor: Is that it?…

— Russell T Davies

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will…

— William Osler

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I…

— Samuel Barber

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

— Anonymous

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

— Evelyn Lauder

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

— Joan Rivers

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

“When treatment for health issues is conducted like a military operation, our body-minds become a battlefield.”

— Heidi DuPree

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

— George Herbert

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without…

— George Hamilton

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

— Robert Downey, Jr

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

— Robert Reich

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“The majority of prescription medications that the doctors gave me degraded my health instead of improving it.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Anonymous

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

— Joel Fuhrman