Medical Quotes - Page 3

To live long, live slowly.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

Listen, you don't know any better so I'll just tell you. You can't try to save money by not having the right beer. You know, you can skip having medical insurance, you can buy everything you own at a swap meet but the right beer is what makes living like this possible.

The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation