“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be… — Rennie Airth Copy Share Image
“Apart from the perverse incentives of our fee-for-service system, a major driver of overconsultation is the uncertainty engendered by the hurried pace… — Sandeep Jauhar Copy Share Image
Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The brain-disease model takes control over people’s fate out of their own hands and puts doctors and insurance companies in charge of… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“Gone are the days when the old country doctor would drive out to your house and amputate your infected leg for a… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
“Dad stepped forward. "Mr. Zelden, I'm Patrick Silver." Zelden Frowned. “It’s Doctor Zelden, if you don’t mind. I do hold a doctorate… — Mara Purnhagen Copy Share Image
The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, You will… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
As a society, almost one 1 of 2 adults has a chronic disease of one form or another. And where we're spending… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's… — Betty Shabazz Copy Share Image
I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor's biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek.… — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have… — Aarti Mann Copy Share Image
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a… — Tommy Cooper 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
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Time is the cruelest of physicians, healing All wounds, but always slowly, looping A surgical needle through the mind’s flesh, experiencing Torment… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm trained as a medical doctor - that's my field: I've been practicing long enough to see how extremely broken our health… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My job as the doctor is to provide my patients with the information and services they need to make the best decisions… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more… — Euripides Copy Share Image
As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image