Medicine Quote by Eric Topol Download Open image “Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.” — Eric Topol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Medicine
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another,… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, Choosing Wisely doesn’t emphasize the cumulative risk of these scans that involve ionized radiation.78–81 For example, a typical cardiology practice has its patients… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
“I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
