Quotes about Medical

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

"A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases."

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

"Time is generally the best doctor."

"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."

"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm."

"I believe that properly regulated research in stem-cell biotechnology will lead to many valuable improvements in medical treatment and that objections on religious or ethical grounds should be vigorously opposed."

"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."

"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."

"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."

"We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully."

"Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child."

"You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."

"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."

"Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. -Lucille Roybal"

"We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind. -Patrick Soon"

"Why have we settled for a medical system that allows cancer to be recast as a chronic and tolerable disease rather than one we should try to prevent? Why do so many scientists at the nation's drug companies and universities turn their backs on the possibility of prevention?"

"This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth."

"I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it."

"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website. -Tim Berners"

"I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care."

"Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an environment that keeps medical students in Arizona to practice medicine once they complete medical school and their residency programs."

"In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying."

"The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness."

"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime."

"Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research."

"You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution."

"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

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

"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society."

"There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values."