Medicine Quote by Ken Kesey

“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.”

— Steven Magee

“Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick, they are easily led to believe that this knowledge…

— Marcel Proust

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as…

— Joseph Dumit

“There are certain people, the sicker they get the longer they live.”

— Arthur Miller

“a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.”

— Kevin Kelly

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were…

— Richard Carmona

“medicine is undergoing a tremendous conceptual revolution. Twentieth-century medicine aimed to heal the sick. Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy. Healing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going…

— Abraham Verghese

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than…

— Thomas Carlyle