Quotes About Medical Science

#1. Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented drugs adequately masked his ignorance of, and indifference to, medical science.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Richard Lamm

#3. Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Aldous Huxley

#4. Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984,

Stephen Cope

#5. For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

Dan Brown

#6. Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.

Jerome Groopman

#7. I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#8. In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

Francois Magendie

#9. Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

#10. I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Robert Jarvik

#11. With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal.

Steve Toltz

#12. Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

#13. The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Arthur Kornberg

#14. We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

Richard Carmona

#15. Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.

Benjamin Stone

#16. The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

Deborah Butterfield

#17. The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Edward Bach

#18. You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

Eugene O'Neill

#19. The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

Thomas Szasz

#20. When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

Warwick Davis

#21. ...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the war. That is an epitome of civilization. We continually invent new diseases and almost catch up with them by our invention of remedies.

Joe Gould

#22. Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

Norman Cousins

#23. Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

#24. ... if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

K.J. Parker

#25. In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions

Albert Camus

#26. The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel

#27. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Jasper Fforde

#28. I urge you to engrave this on the template of your memories: there are thousands of diseases in this world, but Medical Science only has an empirical cure for twenty-six of them. The rest is ... guesswork.

Erich Segal

#29. Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Llaila Afrika

#30. Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Aldous Huxley

#31. In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Martin H. Fischer

#32. The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

Denton Cooley

#33. I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

Hugh Laurie

#34. It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

Susan Lim

#35. St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

William Henry Danforth

#36. He died a modern death, in hospital, ... after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it was being offered were unimpressive.

Julian Barnes

#37. Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy? I

Anne Frank

#38. Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,

Fred Thompson

#39. If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

Zora Neale Hurston

#40. In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.

Atul Gawande

#41. The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

Wilfred Trotter

#42. I want to enrich medical science with a new term: Arbeitskur.

Leo Tolstoy

#43. Medical Science Has Determined Envy, Anger Are Responsible For Plethora Of Medical Conditions

Sunday Adelaja

#44. If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

Peter Medawar

#45. Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

George Bernard Shaw

#46. Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

Stephen B. Pearl

#47. I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author ... ' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#48. I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.

Juanita Ray

#49. Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

Lewis Hyde

#50. My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

Tess Gerritsen

#51. I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

Deepak Chopra

#52. There is a saying in the medical profession 'Inside every
tablet is a little bit of poison'. Avoid medications if you can.

Steven Magee

#53. For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers ... Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease.

Peter Duesberg

#54. Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

Richard Diaz

#55. Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle
Hippocrates rest in peace. It's time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

Anurag Shourie

#56. Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Julie Bishop

#57. We are what our genetics say we are. Melissa Mae Palmer on being born with one of the rarest diseases in history and possessing the only genetic living code.

Melissa Mae Palmer

#58. As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations ... Medical books, were immensely multiplied, ... (towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.

John Wesley

#59. No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

Anonymous

#60. Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

Lee S. Hawke

#61. My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a call for more integrated relations between science and humanities in order to transform medical cultures.

Ann Cvetkovich

#62. Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

John Shaw Billings

#63. Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.

Alice Dreger

#64. This ( ... ) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.

Jack Kevorkian

#65. Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Irving R. Levine

#66. You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Richard Selzer

#67. I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.

Adriana Petryna

#68. It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Norman Cousins

#69. Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".

David Stewart

#70. If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we do not encourage "science" to fully investigate the medical usages of pot.

Steven Machat

#71. No scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s).

Richard Diaz

#72. Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#73. There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

Jonah Goldberg

#74. She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward

Timothy Zahn

#75. The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

Woody Allen

#76. Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

August Bier

#77. I'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

Thomas Armstrong

#78. Everyone is mentally ill, they just haven't figured out a name for yours yet.

Chris Sprudz

#79. Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

James Lovelock

#80. I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

Dean Ornish

#81. The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Malcolm Rogers

#82. It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Paul Farmer

#83. I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!

David Agus

#84. It's degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Siobhan Davis

#85. Psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.

Richard Feynman