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...

We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time.

I put the word “diagnosis” in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a “diagnosis” led to a “cure,” or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore...

Les gens bien portants sont des malades qui s’ignorent.

In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless patch of green known as “No Man’s Land.” Here 1,500 unidentified...

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...

You’ll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

No doctor knows everything. There’s a reason why it’s called “practising” medicine.

I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me...

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder; Ellis put first a finger in the entry wound and then another in...

We cannot be damaged into health.

Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.

The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated...

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering...

Board up your homes, make sure you have enough medicine, make sure the car has enough gas,

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically accomplished laboratory is like a robot orchestra that produces perfectly pitched tunes but...