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!

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.

We expect the world of doctors. Out of our own need, we revere them; we imagine that their training and expertise and saintly dedication have purged them of all the uncertainty, trepidation, and disgust that...

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns – for both patients and society – and it can be hard to...

Los científicos e individuos de finales del siglo veinte son altamente creyentes, tanto como los científicos de antaño, lo único que ha cambiado es el objeto de su fe, los tradicionales creían en principios universales...

Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

The U.S. has a so-called health care system that has nothing to do with the promotion of health. Those who run this system do not care about your health, and it’s far from being a...

has been a longtime champion of Medicare modernization, and of providing seniors with access to preventive medicine and the new drugs that are transforming health care in this country. I saw this commitment firsthand in...

no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine — not a disease...

..my music isn’t just music- its medicine.

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received, accepted, and even developed the classical legacy. For some five or six rich...

Believing is half the cure.

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

A slow but steady transformation of deviance has taken place in American society. It has not been a change in behavior as such, but in how behavior is defined. Deviant behaviors that were once defined...

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face… Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent… but the benign...