Medicine Quotes · Page 99

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

— Don Rickles

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

— Sam Keen

“Your doctors have the ability to legally kill you with a cocktail of potent prescription drugs.”

— Steven Magee

“Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.”

— Danielle Ofri

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

— C. S. Lewis

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

— Neem Karoli Baba

You know how laughter is the best medicne, well weed give you the giggles, so weed is the best medicne.

— Levita Charin

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

— P. D. James

“Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to…

— Charles Seife

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will…

— William Osler

“It can be rough going to maintain both composure and empathy in these situations, but a doctor's failure to do that is…

— Danielle Ofri

“Say what you want about healthcare in America, but where else in the world can you get free antibiotics by just drinking…

— Buddy Winston

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology…

— Donald Kagan

There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now…

— Jay Mohr

“Doctors, however, are just as vulnerable to marketing tactics as the rest of us; companies merely use different methods to seduce them.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little.…

— Atul Gawande

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life."…

— Benjamin Hoff

At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or…

— Malcolm Forbes

“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,…

— Tara Brach

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football.…

— Marv Levy

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I…

— Samuel Barber

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

— Sherry Stringfield

There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

— William Osler

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There”

— Jon Ronson

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

— Ron Williams

“Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.”

— Danielle Ofri

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

— Ann Wigmore

I believe gelato is meant to be treated as medicine and taken daily as a prescription.

— Betsy Brandt

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

— Samuel Hahnemann

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

— Bob McDonnell

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

— William Osler

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

— Ken Jeong

“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”

— Frank Oski

I travel to over 35 countries to conduct demos where I stress the food-as-medicine concept.

— Chef Damu

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

— George Bernard Shaw