We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
A merry heart is good like a medicine.
Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the president of Burkina Faso. He knows the key medicine man who works day and night to keep the president in power. These medicine men don't have offices downtown; they live in huts in remote areas, but that is where the real political power resides. A medicine man has no clue about the actual workings of domestic or international politics. All he knows is that a person has a seat of importance somewhere, and his job is to keep that person on that seat.
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.
Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence. '
Marijuana is a proven medicine.
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
Earlier this week. . . scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
