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
“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
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
[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
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
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
Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“It was a relief for someone to explain what was wrong, what had happened. No one else, none of those doctors in… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
[I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine…On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can… — Glenn Thompson Copy Share Image
The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“This original version of Coca-Cola contained a small amount of coca extract and therefore a trace of cocaine. (It was eliminated early… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All biological and artificial mechanisms -no matter how well designed- are vulnerable to malfunctions, failures, and breakdowns. Even if developmental processes are… — Marco del Giudice 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
I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What makes the EpiPen unique is its delivery vehicle - an auto-injector that's packaged in a convenient, pen-like device. The product's key… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these… — Jay Leno 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
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