Medical Quotes


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. Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical 239
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. Jack Kevorkian Medical 229
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. Hippocrates Medical 177
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer Medical 156
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. Mike Pence Medical 141
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. Arlen Specter Medical 134
Medical physics is an applied area of physics. John Cameron Medical 134
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. Anton Chekhov Medical 128
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich Medical 123
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. Bill Hicks Medical 111
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. Martin H. Fischer Medical 106
Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. John Doolittle Medical 94
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. Ron Paul Medical 91
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust Medical 90
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. Tom G. Palmer Medical 90
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. Sue Kelly Medical 88
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov Medical 88
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. Ashley Montagu Medical 86
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. John Cameron Medical 85
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. Terry Pratchett Medical 85
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who? Jay London Medical 84
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. Jack Kevorkian Medical 84
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. Bob McDonnell Medical 84
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. Charles Schumer Medical 83
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. Norman Cousins Medical 83
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. Ike Skelton Medical 83
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. Abbie Hoffman Medical 82
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. Napoleon Bonaparte Medical 82
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. Plato Medical 81
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. Cass Canfield Medical 81
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. Potter Stewart Medical 81
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. Ronald Reagan Medical 81
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. Ryan White Medical 80
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. Emily Greene Balch Medical 80
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. Mary Stuart Masterson Medical 79
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. P. G. Wodehouse Medical 79
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. George Pataki Medical 79
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. Ovid Medical 78
We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents. George Pataki Medical 78
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. Carl Levin Medical 78
Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site. Alex Chiu Medical 77
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. Daniel Nathans Medical 76
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. Samuel Wilson Medical 76
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. Terry Pratchett Medical 76
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. Gerald F. Lieberman Medical 76
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits. Haldan Keffer Hartline Medical 76
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. Taylor Caldwell Medical 75
To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment? John Paul Stevens Medical 75
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? Peter Lewis Allen Medical 75
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time. Jami Gertz Medical 74

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