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...

We live in a global village, Neel, where billions of voices babble simultaneously, and in this village a new hierarchy is being established, a new caste-system is being created. Only this time, it is money...

practice”?

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at...

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant...

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.

Conventional medicine interventions did better than placebo, whereas the homeopathy interventions basically did the same as placebo.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but...

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. “Are you trying to kill me, woman?””If I mean to kill someone, I do it,” Rosethorn told him. “I...

My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent...

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

I’m sorry, ‘herbal medicine’, “Oh, herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’. And the rest of it is...

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Love, it’ll make you feel better before it’ll make you feel worse. So it’s like inverse medicine.

When you got a condition, it’s bad to forget your medicine.

Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with thefloating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other...

If science is defined or understood as a mode of seeking knowledge, a means of interpreting nature in a way that can be demonstrated to others, then the plant-medicine traditions of the Amazon as they...

We even save a few lives, but only a fraction of the lives that need to be saved. Soon, we will leave and when we leave there will be nothing to take our place. The...

Hey! Buy our Acne-Magic Drug! You’ll have crystal clear skin! In your coffin!” What the hell is wrong with us?

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

If ever there was a plant that speaks to its connection to your heart, it is sweet blue violet. Not only does violet help your body dissolve cysts, lumps, and bumps, this plant’s soothing nature...

Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; … fully half of us are alive today...