890 Quotes About Medicine

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

Stories are medicine.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

A lot of people have run out of the medicine they take,

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.