Medicine Quotes · Page 79

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

— Walter Hadwen

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

— Steve Martin

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

— Malcolm Rogers

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

— Cheng Man-ch'ing

I trained very hard to get into medicine, so I won't say I'll never go back to it.

— Holly Branson

“restorative medicine” refers to medical practices that enable the body to heal itself rather than just treat the symptoms”

— Steven R. Gundry

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

— Adriana Lima

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father…

— Robert Jarvik

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to…

— Marcia Angell

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing…

— Lord Salisbury

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the…

— John Templeton

“The patient suffers; the family threatens; the colleagues frown; the nurse laughs; Death grins; and the young doctor dances a crazy jig…

— Bert Keizer

“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and…

— Charles Sorel

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the…

— Ihara Saikaku

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must…

— Hippocrates

“The U.S. has a so-called health care system that has nothing to do with the promotion of health. Those who run this…

— Gary Tunsky

If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in…

— Bill Gates

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his…

— Tony Snow

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not…

— Dianne Feinstein

Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty…

— Lewis Thomas

“Wanna go to bed and play doctors?” Chuckling, she punched his arm. “No, I don’t.” “Sorry, that was immature. How about playing…

— Suzanne Wright

A doctor is a person who kills you today to prevent you from dying tomorrow.

— Vikrant Parsai

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

— John Ortberg

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

— Thomas de Quincey

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

— Conor Lamb

Depending on your culture, you can make physician which treats you feel himself like a veterinarian.

— Ilkin Santak

Impossible for wrestler to become doctor or the mechanic. All they know is the wrestling and forever they do this job.

— The Iron Sheik

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

— Nancy Mitford

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

— Deepak Chopra

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

— Anonymous

If you're believing God for a medical miracle, always remember, doctors only practice while God performs.

— Anonymous

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

— Kenneth Oppel

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken…

— Anonymous

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

— Jennifer Lawrence

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

— George Howe Colt

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

— Joey Bishop