- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine Quotes
On doctors, patients, prescriptions, and the art of healing.
These quotes span personal and political ground — someone glad they never became a doctor, concern that prescription costs point to a broken system, and a reminder that medicine has always mixed treatment with reassurance. See Doctor quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
- Enroll
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- Nov 07, 2020
Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Physician
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020