Medicine Quotes · Page 62

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

— Mitt Romney

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

— Oliver Sacks

“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker”

— Amanda Lovelace

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

— Albert Schweitzer

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

— Gretel Ehrlich

“To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.”

— Samuel Shem

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than…

— Robert Winston

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for…

— Joyce Maynard

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background…

— Paul Dudley White

Whenever I was presented with hardships - trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion - I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as…

— Raye

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in…

— Thomas Keneally

I think once an athlete always an athlete and once you have a competitive nature about you, in general, it's hard to…

— Kristin Armstrong

“Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best…

— Candess M. Campbell

My latest blood test said my cholesterol was very high and my doctor recommended some medicine for it. I said "no" to…

— Bill Cosby

I'm not a doctor but I promise to ease your pain. I'm not an angel but I promise to be there for…

— Punkinhead Abhishek

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. Dr [Simon] Wessely was speaking and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable lecture on…

— Byron Hyde

“• A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of…

— Amy Sedaris

“When speaking of the mighty Andes and the so-called "eyebrows" country at the range's eastern base- the Tropical Wet Forest region-I am…

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger

At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of…

— Alberto Villoldo

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives…

— Ingrid Newkirk

We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention…

— Erich Segal

Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two…

— Nicolas Cage

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and…

— Thomas A. Edison

Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.

— Daniel D. Palmer

The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

— Russell T Davies

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

— Marcel Proust

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

— Donatella Versace

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

— Mehmet Oz

“Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.”

— Diana Ross

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

— Anne Sexton

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

— Benjamin Rush

“A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor... Reaching Children Who Live in a World of Their Own”

— August Bier

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

— Joshua Lederberg

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

— Alexander Pope

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

— Jeff Raz

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the…

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

— Jonas Salk

We believe that the future of health care is going to involve a mix of old and new methods of treatment.

— Conor Lamb

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

— David Fincher