Medical famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
-- Albert Claude -
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
-- Aldous Huxley -
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
-- Alexis Carrel -
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
-- Alfred Adler -
HOMÅ’OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ***** hurts.'
-- Andy Roddick -
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
-- Aretha Franklin -
No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.
-- Atul Gawande -
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.
-- Atul Gawande -
There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
-- Austin Grossman -
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
-- Barbara Boxer -
An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.
-- Barbara Brennan -
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions...
-- Benedict Fitzgerald -
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
-- Bob McDonnell -
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.
-- C. L. Wilson -
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients
-- Carl Levin -
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
-- Cesar Romero -
I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.
-- Cote de Pablo -
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
-- Craig Venter -
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions.
-- Danica McKellar -
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
-- Daniel Nathans -
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
-- Danny Hillis -
Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?
-- Dave Chappelle -
I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.
-- Dean Ornish -
Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.
-- Debbie Stabenow -
Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not
-- Dennis Peron -
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
-- E. B. White -
I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
-- Edwin Moses -
The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.
-- Ernst T. Krebs -
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
-- Evan Sayet -
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
-- Ezekiel Emanuel -
Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,
-- Fred Thompson -
I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.
-- Gelsey Kirkland -
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
-- George Herbert -
The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases...
-- George Lakoff -
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.
-- George Pataki -
I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.
-- George W. Bush -
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.
-- Gore Vidal -
Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.
-- Graham Chapman -
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
-- Grant Morrison -
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
-- Hilary Mantel -
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
-- Hippocrates -
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research
-- Ike Skelton -
Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.
-- Ilona Andrews -
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.
-- Ivan Illich -
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of ***** for medical use.
-- Jacob Zuma -
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.
-- Jacques Derrida -
The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.
-- James Morcan -
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.
-- James Walsh -
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
-- Jay London -
The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.
-- Jenny McCarthy -
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
-- Jim Cooper -
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.
-- Joel Fuhrman -
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
-- Johannes V. Jensen -
Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.
-- John E. Sarno -
Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.
-- John Gorrie -
When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.
-- Katherine Boo -
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
-- Katherine Dunn -
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?
-- Kevin R. Stone -
Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
-- Lesley Nicol -
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
-- Linda M. Godwin -
The next wave of medical advances will be when we come to recognize the body as an energetic system.
-- Lisa Oz -
The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.
-- Malcolm Rogers -
Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?
-- Marcia Angell -
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
-- Martha Beck -
My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
-- Mary Roach -
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.
-- Mehmet Oz -
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.
-- Michael Porter -
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
-- Paddy Chayefsky -
If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
-- Pat Buchanan -
He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
-- Paul Farmer -
The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him
-- Paul Merson -
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
-- Paul Tournier -
I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.
-- Paz de la Huerta -
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
-- Peter Diamandis -
For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease.
-- Peter Duesberg -
If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.
-- Peter Medawar -
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
-- Peter Shaffer -
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
-- Potter Stewart -
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
-- Publilius Syrus -
According to your medical checkup, you are dead.
-- Rene Desmaison -
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.
-- Richard Conniff -
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
-- Richard M. Weaver -
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.
-- Richard Whately -
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.
-- Robert Jarvik -
I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
-- Robert M. Fresco -
God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
-- Robert Owen -
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.
-- Robin Cook -
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like
-- Robin Tunney -
I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work,
-- Sam Simon
