- People
- |
- 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
- Kindness
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
- Pain
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
- Practice
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
- Health
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't properly shared, so I wouldn't know exactly what was in the hospital records; patients would be lost. Computerization gives the opportunity to actually get the information much better.
- Economics
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.
- Nov 07, 2020
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
- Football
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.
- Fashion
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
- Belong
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
- Happens
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We all know what happens with socialized medicine: rationing and stagnant care.
- Out
- |
- Nov 07, 2020