Best 331 quotes in «medical quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

(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.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

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

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has been advancing. We have now genomic data. We have the power of big data about what your living patterns are, what's happening in your body. Even your smartphone can collect data about your walking or your pulse or other things that could be incredibly meaningful in being able to predict whether you have disease coming in the future and help avert those problems.

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

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

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 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 ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

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.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

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.

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