- 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
- Curiosities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
- Heights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
- First People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
- Compounding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020