Best 331 quotes in «medical quotes» category

It's very intimidating looking at the script and realizing that you have to say medical jargon as if you've said them a million times before, and they're just a part of your vocabulary. But that's what preparing is for, and you can't just really wing it. You've got to really know what you're doing.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

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.

I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

Medical malpractice - that's a great issue for Republicans and you didn't hear anyone talk about it.

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

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

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.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

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.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better electronic health records, more inter-operability amongst various types of electronic systems and cybersecurity is becoming a huge deal in in health care. Health care records are highly sought after by virtue of the fact that not only do you have somebody's person financial information, you also have their person medical information.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

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

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

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

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

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.

Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.