Medical Quotes

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

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

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

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

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

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

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.