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If you want total security, go to prison. There youre fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they dont know much more about soul than he did.
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.
We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think Im supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
If youre so pro-life, do me a favour: dont lock arms and block medical clinics. If youre so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
"Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love’s command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love’s behest Far excelleth all the rest."
"And after all, what is a lie? Tis but the truth in a masquerade"
"Death – the last sleep?"
"Disease is a lack of health. Health is not a lack of disease."
"Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food."
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
"On the alter of prejudice we crucify our own, yet- The blood of all children is the color of God"
"She got her looks from her father: Hes a plastic surgeon."
"The Biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
"The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think"
"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep."
...in psychotherapy, we study the "secretions" of the human brain, coming out of the patients mouth in the form of words.
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“Caffeine. The gateway drug.”
“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude”
“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”
A bad cold wouldnt be so annoying if it werent for the advice of our friends.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
A chance to cut is a chance to cure.
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession
A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment.
A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion
A drug is that substance, which, when injected into a rat will produce a scientific report..
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctors book.
A good surgeon must have an eagle`s eye, a lion`s heart, and a lady`s hand.
A great marriage is not when the ´perfect couple´ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.
A happy mood of mind, a sweet and simple piety, a generous desire to help and serve others will encourage and strengthen health in ourselves.
A healthy body and soul come from an unencumbered mind and body.
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashiers office.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
A liar should have a good memory.
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
A mans health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
A mans health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
A merry heart make a cheerful countenance. Peace of mind, a good conscience, a gentle, generous, unselfish heart are all great elements of health, just as anger and excessive grief and hatred tend to destroy vitality.
A merry heart makes a long life.
A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
A patient is never too sick for a life saving procedure.
A peculiar thing in medicine is that we never believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in animals.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
A pill a day keeps the stork away.
A quiet mind cureth all.
A rule of thumb in the matter of medical advice is to take everything any doctor says with a grain of aspirin.
A single death is a tragedy; a million death is statistic.
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.
A very bold surgeon is the one who realizes that his patient takes all the risks.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
A womans health is her capital.
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Aerobic exercise performed regularly is natures best physiological tranquilizer.
After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isnt for everyone."
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
After dinner, rest awhile, after supper, walk a mile.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die. Therefore, it is obvious that it fails only in incurable cases.
Always do sober what you said youd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.
Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.
Americas doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An empty belly is the best cook.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendly chafferers meet
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.