Medicine Quotes

The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.

Shireen Jeejeebhoy

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Mother Teresa

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Paul Farmer

The most underused chemical-free, safe, effective, alternative medicine is spelled R-E-S-T.

Saundra Dalton-Smith

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

William James Mayo, National Edu

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Goldacre

I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology?

Michael J. Collins

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously. Not keep the eyes so narrowed down to the small dispairs.Those people who say forgive and forget, I say they not right. Not so simple. I say, find right medicine. Bitterness must be just right for problem. Then swallow it, think of good things can do when no longer sick.

Lydia Kwa

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.

Jack Kevorkian

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Mark Twain

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Richard Selzer

The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

William Shakespeare

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of impact I will leave on others. I will never choose the destructive path of self and outward victimization again.

Steve Maraboli

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.

Ben Goldacre

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Sir Samuel Garth

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Miguel de Cervantes

Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.

Isak Dinesen