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,...

All of us got into medicine because we wanted to take good care of people. This (electronic record keeping) allows us to take better care of people.

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth; that I...

The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

The core predicament of medicine – the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing...

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Be what you want to be,not what your parents want.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

Basch: So why don’t you ask her out?The Runt: I’m scared she wouldn’t like me and say no.-So what? What have you got to lose?-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said...

The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this...

I saved a man’s life once,” said Granny. “Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I’d bought it from the dwarves. That’s the biggest part...

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

A little humility and laughter in our life is good medicine for us! Especially at our own expense! This is how we grow! This is how our spirit survives with essence!

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Literature is a virus.

I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases by other kids whose parents are anti-vaxxers, to the frequent examples of how...