890 Quotes About Medicine

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.