302 Quotes About Medical

Periodic Paralysis is not our friend

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.

During the course of my medical treatment, I went from believing the medical profession were going to cure me to the reality that they were probably going to kill me.

My nickname when I worked at the university research and teaching hospital was ‘Angel’.

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

It is through experience that I have become a critic of the medical industry.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

You should be suspicious of a medical profession that is in the business of treatments, not cures.