Medical Quotes

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. (Faina Ranevskaya)
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. View quote
Frank Sinatra
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. View quote
Neal Barnard
The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.' View quote
Rebecca Skloot
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. (Ben Goldacre)
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on. View quote
Nathan Deal
To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles. View quote
Mike Pence
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. View quote
Ike Skelton
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care. View quote
Sue Kelly
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. View quote
Timothy Murphy
Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. View quote
William Scranton
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition-thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. View quote
Michael Shermer
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years. (Yehudi Menuhin)
The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders. View quote
Robert Owen
I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it. View quote
Bernard Baruch
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Who wants to live to be a hundred What's the point of it A short life and a merry one is far better than a long life sustained by fear, caution and perpetual medical surveillance. View quote
Henry Miller