Medication Quotes

• It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Doctors, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person.

  Temple Grandin

  Tools, Helping, Should

  Temple Grandin, Kate Duffy (2008). “Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome and High-functioning Autism”, p.25, AAPC Publishing

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Medication can help us live a happier life.

  Carnie Wilson

  Helping, Happier Life

  "Vanessa Lachey and 6 More Stars Open Up About Postpartum Depression" by Jennifer Abbey and Rosalyn Oshmyansky, abcnews.go.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

  Mehmet Oz

  Support, Used, Conjunctions

  "Dr. Oz on Complementary Medicine: 'Challenge the Status Quo'" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. August 31, 2009.

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• Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Underrated

  "Put a Face on It" by Anna Deavere Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Medication without explanation is obscene.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Health, Explanation, Obscene

  Toni Cade Bambara (1982). “The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Stories”, Vintage

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• We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

  Conor Oberst

  Pain, Might, Killing

  Song: Lua

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• I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

  Lady Gaga

  Mental Illness, Illness, Feels

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• I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

  Maimonides

  Food, Healing, Health

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

  Marcia Angell

  Believe, Editors, Two

  "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption". www.nybooks.com. January 15, 2009.

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• moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.

  John Green

  Mom, Audience

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.24, Penguin

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• But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

  Tanya Tucker

  Helping

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• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  Dana Hill

  Years, Tough, Planning

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• About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

  Eric Topol

  People, Half

  "Arphid Watch: Ingestable RFID pills" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Healing, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

  Toni Braxton

  Long, Giving, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

  Carrie Fisher

  Bipolar, Being Free, Three

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• I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Stupid, Decision

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• The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

  Daniel Goleman

  Taken, Anxiety, Mind

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• Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

  Roxane Gay

  Fun, Writing, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

  Frederick Banting

  Burdens Of Life, Medicine, Physicians

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