Medication Quotes

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

I must remind you that starving a child is violence.

Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

The power of music to integrate and cure.

. . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

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.

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.

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.

Caring is the essence of nursing.

Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient.

We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you.

Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

We can have paid family and medical leave.

We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

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.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels.

It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

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.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.