80 Prescription Quotes
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Famous Prescription Quotes
The best prescription is knowledge. — C. Everett Koop
We prescribe pills and procedures when we should be prescribing sprouts, sweat, and sleep. — Will Bulsiewicz
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. — Earl Wilson
When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. — David Jeremiah
Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others. — David Sinclair
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? — Matthew Walker
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. — Guy Fawkes
Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care. — Kendrick Meek
It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription! — T. D. Jakes
The doctor has a remedy for everything but poverty. — Yiddish Proverbs
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca The Elder
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca
Most of my patients don't need a pill. What they really need is help from me to make small, consistent changes to their lifestyle. — Rangan Chatterjee
A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. — John Robert Colombo
Short Prescription Quotes
- The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler
- I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. — Steven Wright
- I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. — Christopher Walken
- To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. — Francis Bowen
- It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad. — Mark E. Hyman
- To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. — James Caan
- He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. — Proverbs
- If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription. — Stephen Covey
- It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance. — Jim Gerlach
- In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. — Tony Alessandra
Doctor Prescription Quotes
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks. — Mark Udall
I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife. — Javier Perez De Cuellar
I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription. — Carre Otis
The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care. — Jack Vance
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill. — Kim Hunter
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. — Finley Peter Dunne
Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for. — Derrick Williams
When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications. — Michael C. Burgess
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something? — Sayings
Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions. — Andrew Saul
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More Prescription Quotes
Digital technologies mainly have an analytical power. Now we're going into a predictive power, and your company is very much involved in it. But then the next step could be to go into prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections anymore, because we know what the result will be. — Klaus Schwab
In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence. — Dick Gregory
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton
As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs. — Michael K. Simpson
I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. — Mike Pence
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
I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss. — Sayings
Exercise and weight loss can outclass medication entirely when it comes to preventing type 2 diabetes. Exercise plus modest weight loss decreased the incidence of diabetes by 58%, outperforming the prescription drug metformin. — Rhonda Patrick
By following a strict prescriptive method, we become dumber, because we lose the ability to think for ourselves. — Mo Gawdat
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation. — Tim Pawlenty
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. — Ruben Hinojosa
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli
Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs. — Marty Meehan
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime. — Sufjan Stevens
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. — Malcolm Potts
Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself. — Ralph Steiner
As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze. — Helen Caldicott
The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.". — Pamela Geller
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive. — Enoch Powell
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times. — David Harvey
Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it. — Bernie Sanders
Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. I’m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers. — Sayings
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. — Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. — Carl Sagan
Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life. — Paul Zane Pilzer
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems. — Russell Baker
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers. — Susan Collins
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises. — John Rosemond
Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off. — John Lewis
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. — Kim Campbell
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas. — Bennie Thompson
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