Medicine Quotes - Page 13

• Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

  Richard Selzer

  Brother, Cutting, Doubt

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• 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.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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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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• 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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• It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

  Randy Newman

  Alcohol, Drug, Whole

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• One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

  Bob Dylan

  Texas, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Defense

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• The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Health, Doctors

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Pigs, Guinea

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• It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation.

  Hubertus Strughold

  Communication, Heart, Sound

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• People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

  Chris Kilham

  Mean, Other Cultures, People

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• Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties.

  Hubertus Strughold

  Men, Space, Creative

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• In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.

  Vernon Coleman

  Powerful, Independent, Doctors

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• I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimun amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Simple, Years

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• According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the proper guidelines to cleanse, purify, and prevent disease, but also uplift oneself into a realm of awareness previously unknown.

  Vasant Lad

  Uplifting, Aggravation, Understanding

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• The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,' the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Names, Physicians

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• I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.

  Samuel Shem

  Race, Disease, Patient

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• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

  Abraham Verghese

  Feelings, Emergencies, Stakes

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

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• We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

  Chris Kilham

  Important, World, Pharmacy

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• Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.

  Chris Kilham

  Alternative Medicine, Plant, Mines

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• Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

  Chris Kilham

  Alternative Medicine, Holistic

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• A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

  Chris Kilham

  Men, Feelings, Needs

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• Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually stimulated... Kind of makes you feel a little like a superhero.

  Chris Kilham

  Sex, Crazy, People

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• If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  Responsibility, Plant Medicine, Healthy

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• While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.

  Chris Kilham

  Being In Love, Chocolate, Brain

  Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.192, St. Martin's Griffin

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