We cannot get much of what we want — sleep, pleasure, activity, or company — when we are sick, and we rarely manage to accommodate ourselves to these losses. We are impossibly frustrated every night we cannot sleep, angry every time we cannot go out, envious when our friends go off skiing, resentful when they eat the foods forbidden to us. . . . One is quickly reminded that passions are their own punishment. —Kat Duff More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is health: to have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. —Bertha Stuart Dyment More about this quote Tags: attention existence health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. —Paracelsus More about this quote Tags: nature healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work. —John Diamond More about this quote Tags: medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do. —Atul Gawande More about this quote Tags: knowledge science habit information medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The true aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases that ravaged pre-agricultural people (something we hear often) is like arguing that seat belts and air bags protect us from car crashes that were fatal to our prehistoric ancestors. —Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. —Steve Martin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. —John Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The pain-relieving ingredient — there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: pain death drugs aspirin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. —Chinese proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A Short History of Medicine2000 BC: "Here, eat this root."1000 BC: "That root is heathen, say this prayer."1850 AD: "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."1940 AD: "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."1985 AD: "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."2000 AD: "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root. —Author unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. —Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not walk into the Kingdom of Heaven one by one. —Mary Parker Follett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email