The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. —Thomas Edison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. —Grey Livingston More about this quote Tags: drugs medicine doctors pharmaceuticals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America's healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. —Walter Cronkite More about this quote Tags: politics health USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. —Roul Turley More about this quote Tags: disease America medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: health value medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love character weakness good desire medicine doctor well-wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The . . . patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. —Quentin Regestein More about this quote Tags: life body medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who ever said that doctors are truthful or even intelligent? You're getting a lot if they know their profession. Don't ask any more from them. They're only human, after all. —Marjorie Karmel More about this quote Tags: truth intelligence medicine doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the "Professional Building." I felt better right away. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without. —Puritan saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. —Jon Kabat-Zinn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept — the realm of emotion and conscience; of memory and intention and sensation. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: strength wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email