Best 331 quotes in «medical quotes» category

With his revelation,...I shattered into a million shards. I felt each piece as it splintered and separated from the whole like a glass I had broken the day before. Debris flew everywhere. It left me without any option but to pick each broken piece up, analyze it, and find out where it belonged. I had to find out where I belonged. Allison La Crosse - Warriors of the Cross

Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and turns it on as high as it will go. She provides a seal with her hand cupped over the plastic mask, over the nose and mouth of the toddler, and methodically provides oxygenated air. Doyle’s tiny chest rises and falls while I listen with my stethoscope. I am reaching for another breathing tube. “Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.

You should be suspicious of a medical profession that is in the business of treatments, not cures.

You look better than sleep.

You should not have a biologically harmful CT X-Ray scan unless you feel that your life depends upon it.

You should be suspicious when the medical profession do not refer you to the correct specialists for your occupational diseases.

You don’t look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.” Treating Murder

You never know what’s lurking in the bloodstream, or skulking under the foreskin, or squatting in the liver, or flitting hither and thither from branch to branch in the bronchial forest.

Your doctors may be slowly killing you with toxic prescriptions.

You should be suspicious when the medical profession refers you to mental health for treatment of your occupational diseases.

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

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

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

According to your medical checkup, you are dead.

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.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

..Because when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.

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

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.

Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

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

Even your religious friends do not want to hear about God during a medical diagnosis.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

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.

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

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.

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

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