I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
It's so hard to be a medic, to be so incredibly incredible that you just don't know how the world will handle… — Sophie Olivia Thompson Copy Share Image
It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be… — Joanna Garcia Copy Share Image
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet,… — Frances M. Young Copy Share Image
With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“You learn it when you become a doctor. Not in school—that isn’t where you learn, in any case—but when you lay your… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“a scholarship somewhere huge, and then a few years from now you’ll get an academic scholarship to the same school and you… — Angela Jackson-Brown Copy Share Image
“I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.' 'Of course they can.' 'I should like to hear your… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry… — Lydia Kwa Copy Share Image
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“As Mollie said to Dailey in the 1890s: "I am told that there are five other Mollie Fanchers, who together, make the… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate… — Derek Theler Copy Share Image
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin.… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
“I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.' Oh, that's a good one,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine… — Peter Nygard Copy Share Image
I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“...daily receiving the old physician in his study; or visiting the laboratory, and, for recreation's sake, watching the processes by which weeds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I had once thought I would become a doctor but gave up on the thought soon enough. I took up the racquet… — P. V. Sindhu Copy Share Image
Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“How it is that someone can meet a physician and within a few moments conclude that he is a good doctor? What… — Richard Colgan Copy Share Image
Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to… — Herbert Ratner Copy Share Image
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
