Medicine Quotes - Page 18

• I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Mother, Father, Decision

  Rita Levi-Montalcini (1988). “In praise of imperfection: my life and work”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Air, Order

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• Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

  Bernard Marcus

  Impact, Race, Survival

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• Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Book, Writing, Difficult Questions

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• Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

  Elliot Cowan

  Heart, Soul, Way

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• Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.

  James Morcan

  Two, Chinese, Labels

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• The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.

  William Carlos Williams

  Spring, Years, Half

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• 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

  Art, Character, Drug

  Paracelsus (1918). “The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”

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• Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized.

  Peter Pronovost

  Technology, Safety, Information

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• In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same time endowing it with a new cosmopolitan, cross-cultural flavor that lifts it to a genuinely planetary level.

  Rudolph Ballentine

  Depth, Flavor, Levels

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• People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.

  Lee Lozowick

  People, Giving, Advice

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Suffering, Students

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• The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Character, Intelligent, Important

  "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

  Jason Gann

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  "Elijah Wood and Jason Gann Talk WILFRED Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger and Ideas for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

  Maggie Nelson

  Believe, Violence, Kind

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• My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

  John Henry Carver

  War, Engineering, Important

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• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  Edmund H. North

  Dose

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• So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.

  Franklin Raines

  Thinking, Would Be, Being The Best

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• Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Ties, Social

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• Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

  Gelett Burgess

  Philosophy, Yoga, Inspiration

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

  Jesse Torrey

  Coffee, Drunk, Decay

  The Moral Instructor Pt IV, Sect. II, Ch. 10

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• In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Powerful, Passion, Giving

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• If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.

  Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh

  Wisdom, Islamic, Gossip

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.

  Brock Adams

  Beautiful, Teaching, Book

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