Medicine Quotes

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public.

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.