Medical Quotes

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

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.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

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.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions,
the results of which,
taken collectively,
are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

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.

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.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

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

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

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.

Health requires healthy food.

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.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

To live long,
live slowly.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

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.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

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.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'