Medicine Quotes
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.
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I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
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Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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I got the pumps It aint got medicine
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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
