Quotes About Medicine Drugs

#1. I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

Andrew Weil

#2. Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.

Atul Gawande

#3. Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren't given the drug.

David Perlmutter

#4. Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has its own conditions.

Suzy Kassem

#5. When none of those seemed to cure her, she moved on to modern medicine: a fertility specialist, who recommended drugs to induce ovulation and daily hormone injections that made her sob over a missed green light, a cookie dropped to the floor, bow-tied pigtails on little girls. The

Sarah McCoy

#6. I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

Dean Ornish

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

Gertrude B. Elion

#8. Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

Bernie Sanders

#9. New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

Daniel Akaka

#10. I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

Andrea Bocelli

#11. What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.

Pat Condell

#12. A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

Voltaire

#13. Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Brad Pitt

#14. When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Amy Sedaris

#15. Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.

John A. Vanek

#16. In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted,

Ashwin Sanghi

#17. Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

#18. The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.

Julian Whitaker

#19. Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

K. Eric Drexler

#20. Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

Paracelsus

#21. Food is better medicine than drugs

Patrick Holford

#22. Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

Andrew Saul

#23. My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#24. Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

Rick Doblin

#25. Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.

Leon Chaitow

#26. 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

#27. The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

Sunday Adelaja

#28. 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

#29. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#30. Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

Emmet Densmore

#31. I don't believe that weed is a drug. I believe its herbal medicine. I'll smoke that occasionally and I definitely back marijuana but anything harder than that, I just say no to and I encourage kids to say no to hard drugs.

Christofer Drew

#32. People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

Chris Kilham

#33. Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Herbert M. Shelton

#34. I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

Vincent Gallo

#35. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

Roman Payne

#36. Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Nicolas Chamfort

#37. Health is Wealth

Ronnie Plant

#38. I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Sarah Silverman

#39. Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.

John H. Tobe

#40. Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions.

Robert Berkow

#41. Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#42. Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Deepak Chopra

#43. So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.

Donald Kennedy