Medicine Quotes - Page 16

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

  Chris Kilham

  Alternative Medicine, Holistic

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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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• Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

  Robert Orben

  Pain, Disease, Thanks

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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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• 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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• I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

  Robert Jarvik

  Practice, Careers, Medical Science

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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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• The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

  Ivan Illich

  Miracle, Population, Levels

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

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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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• That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

  Chester Brown

  One Direction, Culture, Looks

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• Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

  Alfred Kazin

  Art, Technology, May

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• Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

  David Fincher

  Hands, Littles, Entertainment

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• There is no medicine to cure a fool!

  Bhartrhari

  Fool, Cures

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• For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

  John Barrasso

  Independent, Years, Care

  John Barrasso's remarks on coverage at White House health summit in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.

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• The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

  Jay Griffiths

  Tree, Mind, Rainforest

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Children, People, Brain

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

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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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• Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Principles, Different, Chiropractic

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• Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

  Paul Simon

  Baby, Art, Animal

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Jobs, Research, Alive

  "The Nights and Days Of Elizabeth Edwards". Interview with Monica Langley, www.wsj.com. July 21, 2007.

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• How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

  Joseph Priestley

  Philosophy, Book, Past

  Joseph Priestley (1791). “Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c”, p.145, Birmingham

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• I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.

  David Agus

  Unique, Needs, Care

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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