Best 331 quotes in «medical quotes» category

In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Is listening to Pink Floyd in the dark a medical condition?

I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.

I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

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

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

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 trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.