Modern Medicine Quotes

• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  Abram Hoffer

  Believe, Taken, School

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

  Robert Orben

  Pain, Medicine, Disease

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• The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

  Prince Charles

  Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

  Ivan Illich

  Humorous, Health, Doctors

  "Medical Nemesis". Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.

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• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  William Osler

  Education, Healing, Health

  In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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• If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

  Hippocrates

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Taken, Medicine, Medical

  Napoleon in Exile (Barry O'Meara)

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• The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Medicine, Different Ideas

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• It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Health, Doctors, Medicine

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• Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

  Deepak Chopra

  Medicine, Body, Modern

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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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, Medicine, People

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• The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Fitness, Medicine

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• The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Medicine, Doctors

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• Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.

  Michio Kushi

  Spiritual, Hero, Ddt

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 55), December 1994.

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• For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing.

  Newt Gingrich

  Recovery, Medicine, Brain

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.

  Michael Dell

  Medicine, Hydration, Blood

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.

  Paul Tournier

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

  Jennifer Worth

  Medicine, Doe, Know It All

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• Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

  Atul Gawande

  Medicine, Modern, Expertise

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, Thinking, Medicine

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• Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.

  Naomi Judd

  Love, Wise, Book

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• Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Medicine, Each Day, Healthcare

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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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