Best 331 quotes in «medical quotes» category

The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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.

The next wave of medical advances will be when we come to recognize the body as an energetic system.

The Illinois Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana. The bill was passed after the state senator said, 'Come on, dude, pass it. Come on.'

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

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.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

The thing that you worry about your first flight or any flight is some kind of a problem coming up that is going to keep you from doing it. Whether it's being hit by a car, or getting in a bad accident, or coming down with some other medical disqualification. But once the boosters light, you're going.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

Time is generally the best doctor.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

We are looking forward to Donald Trump releasing his medical information. Just making sure everybody is meeting at the same bar here.

Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

We have to remember that the quality of medical care in Indonesia is on par with Kenya or Tanzania, not with Malaysia or Thailand, and that the system is totally corrupt, financially and morally, and would never allow anything 'public', or 'free'.

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

We've legalized marijuana recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.

What can't be cured must be endured.

What's happened [in UK] is a private medical practice has started up, people who can afford it are going to into medical institutions, hospitals and so forth, that are not part of the National Health Service, they've opted out.

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

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

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.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.

When you're having a conversation with someone who, despite his brilliant medical career, says he's going to produce the film, you think, "How's he gonna do this? Is he insane, or is he really going to pull this off? It might be both." It's really amazing to see someone do what he's done.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

After a decade of using the medical profession, I had concluded that it was much better to research your own sickness using the internet and books, and to self treat with over the counter drugs, supplements and commercially available biomedical devices.

After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had a hole in my heart, erratic low blood oxygen levels and brain issues. Heart, lung and brain problems appear to be long term known adverse health aspects of high altitude work and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.

After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.

After years of voyaging through the USA medical system and taking prescription drugs, I was sicker than when I started the process.

A furious researcher stumbled out of one of the lab buildings and shouted, 'I'm a scientist working on the AIDS cure. Why are you here? You are making too much noise.' It was a statement that epitomized the vast and growing rift between scientists and patients.