A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games...

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

I am not sure,’ Mordecai told Thomas, ‘whether omens can be trusted.”Of course they can.”I should like to hear your reasons. But show me your urine first.”You said I was cured,’ Thomas protested. ‘Eternal vigilance,...

A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He had been invited to a conference of heart specialists in North America. On the eve...

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human,...

A large piece of lead floated out of Bobby head, followed by dark chunks of what could only be pieces of Bobby’s brain.The torrent started up again. It flowed steady rather than pulsed with his...

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and...

Health is being in harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric. Health is maintaining communication with the animals and plants...

When speaking of the mighty Andes and the so-called “eyebrows” country at the range’s eastern base- the Tropical Wet Forest region-I am first obliged to give homage to the Apu, the Mountain Lords, the ice-capped...

All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties.

Ossa autem alia quae sunt infra basilare non bene ad sensum apparent nisi ossa illa decoquantur, sed propter peccatum dimitiere consuevi. [The bones which are below the os basilare cannot be well seen unless they...

Homeopathy is the only non-violent health care system

Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an amount would be necessary to kill you.and it’s natural.Calling something NATURAL is a...

En el folclore de la ciencia hay una historia muchas veces contada sobre el momento del descubrimiento: la aceleración del pulso, la luminosidad espectral que adquieren hechos comunes y corrientes, el segundo de parálisis y...

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones...

There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: “Sometimes wrong; never in doubt.” But this seemed to me their strength. Each day surgeons are faced with uncertainties. Information is inadequate; the science is...

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.

I know you’re on my side,” an immunologist once remarked to me as we discussed the politics of vaccination. I did not agree with him, but only because I was uncomfortable with both sides, as...

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

We’d been assured it wouldn’t be painful, though she might experience ‘discomfort,’ a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn’t yours.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy...

I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes; because I feel I might die otherwise.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!

Calling holistic medicine “alternative medicine” is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is “integrated medicine” in which we take the best of both worlds.

Nature itself, is the best medicine prescription, for our whole being.

I emphasize this because some of my colleagues, for whose academic attainments I have great respect, argue” ‘You assume too much; this is not proved; this is not strictly scientific. We disagree with your neurology...

Compassion‬ is medicine to a wounded heart. When we show compassion to those who are suffering we preach Jesus in another way.

State sponsored medicine and science can function as ideology, inspiring blind commitment, fanatical defensiveness and denial, particularly of outcomes inconsistent with the preferred explanatory model. The social etiology of compromised health, insists on an understanding...

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation.

I did not have a cold before or during the French Open. I didn’t take any cold medicine at that time.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has...

Indeed, this crisis was also spurred by the abandonment of professional ideals in the pursuit of profit that made managed care necessary in the first place.

Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help us to understand the evolutionary origins of disease, and this knowledge...

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears — the fluids in which one dissolved all...

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria...

The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of this hormone. … [T]hose of us who search for new biological facts and...

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I had seen that once before, bleeding water. A little baby I worked on as a resident in training. That poor kid had been shot as well—his father had blasted away the top of his...

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Sometimes it all becomes too much. Your body and mind will just give way. Part of you may want to blissfully fade into nothing, but you never do. After a while all the memories and...

Before my first visit to Waorani territory, I was introduced to don Casimiro Mamallacta, a traditional Kichwa healer and family man living in the outskirts of the jungle town of Archidona, by his daughter Mercedes,...

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler,...