Medicine Quotes - Page 12

• The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Doctors, Practice, Way

  "Should You Fire Your Specialist?" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2012.

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• The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Order, Moles

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Fear, Understanding, Association

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• No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

  Muriel Spark

  Technology, Men, Tape

  Muriel Spark (1960). “The Ballad of Peckham Rye”, p.142, New Directions Publishing

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• It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Years, Ideas, Wrong Ideas

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, People, Sick

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• For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Real, Soma

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Advice

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• Mirth is God's medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Mirth

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

  Ernst Mach

  Philosophy, Soma, Elements

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

  J. G. Ballard

  Ambition, Careers, Psychiatrist

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• Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

  John Dryden

  Jealousy, Proof Of Love, Disease

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2923, Delphi Classics

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• There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

  John Steinbeck

  Patient, Ends, Fixed

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

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• Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Philosophy, Laughing

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• Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Couple, Men

  Death of a Salesman "Requiem" (1949)

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• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  Karel Capek

  Philosophy, Gentleman, Soma

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Doors, Soul, Library

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• Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

  Tim Daly

  Sister In Law, Practice, Alternatives

  "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.

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• There is no medicine to cure a fool!

  Bhartrhari

  Fool, Cures

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• 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.

  Paul Davies

  Numbers, Exotic, Mars

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

  Robert Jarvik

  Dad, Doctors, Glad

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyerak, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Care

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• In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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