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...

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

[American ambulance crews] salvaged people we’d never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen,...

Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed…to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit...

Money spent on expensive and unproved magnet therapy might be better spent on evidence-based medicine.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

It must be dawn, and the last breath went out of this body on the table – how long before? Irretrievably gone from this world, as dead as though she had lived a thousand years...

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons....

Encouraging words are good medicine for the soul.

REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure to keep discerning readers warm and hopeful in these cold and desolate times.Unlike...

Until fairly recently, every family had a cornucopia of favorite home remedies–plants and household items that could be prepared to treat minor medical emergencies, or to prevent a common ailment becoming something much more serious....

I don’t like people much, and I like doctors even less.

We took our medicine last quarter and brought our channel inventories back down to about five and a half weeks,

Dermatology … this young daughter of medicine …

In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of the concrete all...

Not today.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Doctors tend to enter the arenas of their profession’s practice with a brisk good cheer that they have to then stop and try to mute a bit when the arena they’re entering is a hospital’s...

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

The surgical resident interested in learning trauma will bypass a residency at a quiet community hospital for a residency at a fast-paced Level 1 trauma center treating a high volume of trauma patients. A Level...

Cualquier enfermedad introduce una duplicidad en la vida: un “ello”, con sus propias necesidades, exigencias y limitaciones.

I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every...

A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority of the public. One that has been shaped to a great...

This original version of Coca-Cola contained a small amount of coca extract and therefore a trace of cocaine. (It was eliminated early in the twentieth century, though other extracts derived from coca leaves remain part...

And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man...

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given...

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

As is the case for a lot of conventional medicine. We have not subjected everything in conventional medicine to that level of scrutiny.

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.

no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts...

The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean – so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that...

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

The MCC should establish whether any of the South African medicine regulatory requirements have been breached and recommend the appropriate course of action to remedy such a situation.

With careful and accurate monitoring, the patients can decide the optimal timing to take their medicine, or can refer themselves in time to a doctor if the results show an aggravation or deterioration in condition.

We are not seeing the big slowdown but we are seeing some weakness around the edges showing the medicine is starting to take effect. And I don’t think it’s just psychological.

Without the patient, there is no healthcare.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

A hotel is a temporary aquarium for people. That’s why I travel with a fishing pole, and erectile dysfunction medicine.

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Dans ce monde fort confus, il y a quelques prescriptions assez claires, dit le philosophe. J’ai pour métier de soigner.

The Secoya are trapped between the devastating effects of the colonization frontier and their rich traditional past, which is proving to be as fragile a reality and as fleeting a memory as the most powerful...

Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!