Medicine Quotes

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.

Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.