Top 100 Medical Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best medical quotes ever written, picked out of the full medical archive on QuoteForever. You will find Napoleon Bonaparte, Nathan Deal, Samuel Goldwyn and Thomas Szasz among them.

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1

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

2

The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's not just the fact that some people get millions of dollars, others get nothing, and the one people who get rich are lawyered, it's just that it causes doctors to practice defensive medicine.

3

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

4

I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

5

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

6

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

7

Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

8

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

9

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

10

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

11

We need to have our medical records put on the IT.

12

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.

13

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

14

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

15

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

16

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

17

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

18

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

19

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

20

The patient decides when it's best to go.

21

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

22

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

23

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.

24

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

25

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

26

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

27

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

28

Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs.

29

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

30

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

31

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

32

The thing that you worry about your first flight or any flight is some kind of a problem coming up that is going to keep you from doing it. Whether it's being hit by a car, or getting in a bad accident, or coming down with some other medical disqualification. But once the boosters light, you're going.

33

My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.

34

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

35

To live long, live slowly.

36

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

37

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

38

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

39

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

40

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

41

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

42

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

43

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

44

Medicines are only fit for old people.

45

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

46

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

47

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

48

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

49

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

50

Time is generally the best doctor.

51

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

52

If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

53

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

54

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

55

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

56

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

57

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

58

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

59

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

60

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

61

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

62

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

63

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

64

Health requires healthy food.

65

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

66

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

67

What can't be cured must be endured.

68

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

69

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

70

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

71

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

72

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

73

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

74

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

75

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

76

He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

77

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

78

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

79

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

80

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

81

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

82

To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

83

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

84

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

85

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

86

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

87

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

88

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

89

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 of psichiatrists--be both.

90

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

91

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

92

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

93

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

94

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

95

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

96

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.

97

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

98

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

99

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

100

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

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