Medical Quotes

Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca. Dylan fans make pilgrimages to Hibbing.

A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

First do no harm. -HippocratesSecond, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.

How do I validate him in the face of such profound personal loss and the outrageous denial by the medical community?

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.