Medical Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Mean, Wish, Getting Older

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Honor, Promise

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Perspective, Research

  "John Cleese And The Key To Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

  Liya Kebede

  Children, East, World

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• The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

  Ben Wheatley

  Drama, Reality, Detectives

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• When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.

  Phil Roe

  Running, Practice, Next Day

  "GOP lawmaker lays out his alternative for ObamaCare". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. December 5, 2013.

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• In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Knowledge, Medicine

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• Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Past, Political, Reform

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Determination, Children, Ignorance

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• we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

  Ellen Goodman

  Yesterday, Transition, Today

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• the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

  Marya Mannes

  Team, Heart, Technology

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• Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Community

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• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Doctors, America

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• You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Taken, Healing

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.54

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• In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.

  Charles Teo

  Mean, Unique, Different

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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• Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Ignorance, Wife, Silence

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• prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Hands, Giving, Disease

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dancer, Praying, Dental

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• Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
  A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Reading, Men, Sick

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.6, Tharpa Publications US

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Years, Body, Disease

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.162, Macmillan

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• If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

  Neal Asher

  Technology, People, Dying

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

  Marcia Angell

  Suffering, Medical Profession, Life Is

  "May Doctors Help You to Die?". www.nybooks.com. October 11, 2012.

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