Medicine Quotes

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do other stuff well, which may not come easily to you.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.