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
What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have… — David Shulkin Copy Share Image
When you're trained in medicine and it's the '80s and you've got all this hi-tech stuff and this ability to diagnose everything,… — Deborah Birx Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Plant medicines work beyond the physical response; sometimes, it's your spirit or emotion that needs healing, and plant medicines can address that… — Karen Rose Copy Share Image
Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you're practicing, whether that's medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck… — Mikhail Varshavski Copy Share Image
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do… — Richard Lamm 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
I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it… — Sandy Nathan Copy Share Image
“Can I interest you in a tour of the shops?” “Shops? I only see one.” “Well, yes. There is only one. But… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“If man is but a biological organism and biology itself may be reduced to a set of physical and chemical laws, it… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“But notice all the conspicuous effort in this story. If Charles’s physicians had simply prescribed soup and bed rest, everyone might have… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them.… — Brian Goldman Copy Share Image
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance… — Walter Mikac Copy Share Image
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Stanford medical doctor, Dr. Abraham Verghese, started using Google Glass because he can make videos of patient examination for medical students to… — Bertalan Mesko Copy Share Image
“The professional ideal of “detached concern” among medical practitioners represents this blend of closeness and distance.1 Many physicians believe it is a… — Christina Maslach Copy Share Image
Increasing patient access to more affordable, FDA-approved generic and biosimilar medicines is a proven and tested solution to lowering prescription drug costs. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that's why I choose to travel and recognize… — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor,… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but… — Prudence Hayes Copy Share Image
I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
“Sick ones cannot teach you to be well. Psychiatrists have a high suicide rate. Why do you think they can help you… — Seth Copy Share Image
Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a… — Paz de la Huerta Copy Share Image
The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient… When asked, how I have for so many years continued an… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image