- 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 May 30, 2021
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
- Merit
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been known to do lunges down hotel hallways. I also like to use the ice bucket in the hotel room as a medicine ball.
- American Taxpayers
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020