The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“I knocked stuff out of the medicine cabinet. Things rolled into the sink. ‘Where’s the aspirin?’ I said. I knocked down more… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
“..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often.… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Where else was I to go? My family had no desire to apprentice me to a physician, for though the admission grieves… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the… — Tobias Crisp Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Hello." The doctor speaks softly, nervously. Mr White doesn't respond, not even the slightest change of expression. Dr Archer has been thinking.… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of… — Pierre Bosquet Copy Share Image
“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, I was plunged back into an avid learning environment, starting at the bottom and working my way painstakingly up the mountain.… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value… — Takeda Nobushige Copy Share Image
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Hope has a great power. Hope can be the only driving force of life. When we face failures, hope can be medicine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
A medicine that makes you feel more real, Closer to your mind, Closer to the ground, Understand what's around, Feel the sound,… — Nathan Schwake Copy Share Image
We must advocate for policies that stabilize our health care markets, lower premiums and drug costs, protect Medicare and address Nevada's physician… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient… — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey Copy Share Image
“There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
