Medical Quotes

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

More people live off cancer than die from it.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

According to your medical checkup, you are dead.

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

The use of animals in medical research remains absolutely essential.

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?

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.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.