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
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. — Henny Youngman
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. — Chris Hadfield
We prescribe pills and procedures when we should be prescribing sprouts, sweat, and sleep. — Will Bulsiewicz
God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is. — Kirstie Alley
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all. — Voltaire
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training. — Charles W. Pickering
Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments. — Jay Leno
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. — Philipus A. Paracelsus
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. — William Osler
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. — Hippocrates
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse — Samuel Shem
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Medical Treatment Quotes
There is probably a promising drug candidate that has already been discovered for the treatment of Down syndrome that is sitting on the shelf of some drug company. — Vivek Ramaswamy
I can't comment on the internal decision-making at other companies, but RVT-101 has the potential to be a very valuable product in the treatment of Alzheimer's, which is a huge unmet medical need. — Vivek Ramaswamy
As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. — Sue Kelly
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. — Michael J. Fox
If we can validate our scientific bets in the clinic, if we can bring valuable new treatments to patients that need them, that will be our ultimate measure of success. — Vivek Ramaswamy
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
First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture. — Sun Simiao
Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers. — Benjamin
We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it. — David Sinclair
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient. — Christiaan Barnard
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. — Aneurin Bevan
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldous Huxley
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it — Maimonides
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. — Oliver Sacks
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. — William Osler
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. — Albert Hofmann
Surgery Quotes
Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king. — Fred Hollows
Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man — Maynard James Keenan
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. — Deepak Chopra
A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain. — Graham Norton
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery. — Dean Ornish
I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware. — Joan Rivers
If surgeons drill out or remove too much tissue, especially the turbinates, the nose can’t effectively filter, humidify, clean, or even sense inhaled air. For this small and unfortunate group of patients, each breath comes in too quickly, a hideous condition called empty nose syndrome. — James Nestor
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness. — Ville Valo
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. — Bill Frist
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it. — Ronald Reagan
I love when you get boner spam for boner pills and the subject is Be a better lover. Oh, the boner was the problem on that? That's why I'm a bad lover? Do you have a pill that's gonna make me care if she cums? That would be a medical miracle. — Doug Stanhope
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. — Michael Porter
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ — Thomas A. Edison
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. — Dianne Feinstein
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. — Paul Farmer
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. — Dean Ornish
Medical Technology Quotes
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction. — Konrad Lorenz
It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology. — John Sununu
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. — P. G. Wodehouse
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. — Ezekiel Emanuel
What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership. — James E. Faust
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive. — Nathan Deal
I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs. — Robert Jarvik
I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education. — Bill Gates
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society. — Michael Sandel
Medical Conditions Quotes
The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Sayings
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. — Bill Bryson
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face. — William Osler
Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are times when answers simply do not suffice. That's because answers don't always reach the problem where it hurts: in the gut and in the heart. — Joni Eareckson Tada
I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain. — Venus Williams
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion. — Aretha Franklin
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed. — Alexis Carrel
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. — Ralph Merkle
Is listening to Pink Floyd in the dark a medical condition? — Jon Stewart
In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure. — Ann Coulter
I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals. — Dave Barry
I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning. — Gelsey Kirkland
I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone. — Sayings
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place. — Abby Johnson
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer. — Gary Null
Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. — Otto Schily
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure. — Timothy Murphy
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. — Potter Stewart
Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such. — Achy Obejas
We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people. — Nancy Northup
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights. — Allyson Robinson
Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. — David Mixner
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure. — Anna Quindlen
All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music. — Tom Waits
I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose. — Tamar Braxton
I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow. — Paz de la Huerta
The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire. — Nan Hayworth
People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise. — Bob Barr
At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure. — Cecile Richards
Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform. — Jerome Groopman
The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures. — Ivan Illich
...this charity...They quibble too much over procedures...while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against another who, seemingly, has perfected a work that the public expects its charity dollars to do. Maybe we should investigate the American Cancer Society's operations. — Roland V. Libonati
In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion. — Warren Hern
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. — Alice Sebold
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