Medicine Quotes - Page 15

• I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.

  David Agus

  Unique, Needs, Care

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

  David Agus

  Technology, Gowns, Entering

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

  Lynn Collins

  People, Magic, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

  Richard Selzer

  Brother, Cutting, Doubt

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• Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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• The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

  Jay Griffiths

  Tree, Mind, Rainforest

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

  Shaun Alexander

  People

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• For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

  John Barrasso

  Independent, Years, Care

  John Barrasso's remarks on coverage at White House health summit in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

  Randy Newman

  Alcohol, Drug, Whole

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• One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

  Bob Dylan

  Texas, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.

  Robert Hooke

  Eye, Science, Errors

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Defense

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• The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

  Aldo Leopold

  Successful, Men, Self

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.229, Library of America

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• A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies.

  Alan Keyes

  Taken, Party, Liberal Media

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• So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. "How could God do this to me?" is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.

  John Gerstner

  Running, Pain, Grief

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• There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

  Doris Humphrey

  Philosophy, Unique, Soma

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• Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

  Tim Holden

  College, Research, Care

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• I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

  Daniel Johnston

  Wish, Juniors, Matter

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

  Bill James

  Miracle, Aspirin, Professionalism

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• I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

  Ken Jeong

  Profession

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• Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

  Ken Jeong

  Issues, Talking, Life And Death

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• The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Philosophy, Perception, Different

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• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

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