Medicine Quotes · Page 55

Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

— Jim Stovall

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine obviously never tried Xanax.

— Anonymous

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

— Ben Hecht

THE BEST MEDICINE IS PREVENTATIVE. LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE. AND PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN THE CURE.

— Nicole Bonomi

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

— Rebecca Skloot

Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

— Bonaventure

First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

— Sun Simiao

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at…

— Roselee Goldberg

Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.

— David Blumenthal

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm,…

— Jay S. Walker

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with…

— Anton Chekhov

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

“Dr. Frank Daschner once infuriated his colleagues by declaring: "You can sit on any toilet seat without the least risk, but don't,…

— Edward Tenner

It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production,…

— Pamela Geller

I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of…

— Andrew Weil

In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing…'Love thy work', and you will…

— Konosuke Matsushita

When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.…

— David J. Lieberman

“...and to forget one's own sharp absurd little personality, reputation and the rest of it, one should read; see outsiders; think more;…

— Virginia Woolf

“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident…

— Atul Gawande

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good…

— Robert Pinsky

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure…

— Clayton Christensen

I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

— Will Ferrell

“What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we’ve made when it comes to…

— Suzanne Somers

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

— Vinod Khosla

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

— John Steinbeck

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I feel uou deep on my heart like a virus who make me need you like a medicine

— Coralia

“If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.”

— Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

— Paracelsus

As a doctor, my thing is, we need to have access to medications; we need to have reasonable prices for medications.

— Mikhail Varshavski

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

— Robert Holden

Not from my point of view…[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

— Rudy Giuliani

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

— Tim Vine

I'll tell you something, Doctor. Something that I've never told you before: I think you're wrong.

— Donna Noble

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

— Andrew Weil

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

— Bob Dylan