Quotes by Medicine Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch. Anne Taintor medicine scotch laughter Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe. Annie Lennox medicine people needs Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family. Annie Lennox medicine healthy children Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. Anthony Bourdain chinese medicine names Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community. Anthony Scaramucci medicine rogues community When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is. Anton Chekhov medicine soul death Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases. Anton Chekhov medicine advice mean A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. Anton Chekhov illness medicine interesting You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to. Ariana Reines medicine sacrifice integrity For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet. Aristotle medicine names philosophy Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles. Aristotle medicine law science 'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' Arthur Conan Doyle medicine science needs The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine. Arthur Frederick Saunders medicine patient giving The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. Arthur Middleton medicine men fall In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls. Arthur Middleton medicine dream reality There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all. Arthur Young physicians medicine differences All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality. Assata Shakur medicine healing reality We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do. Atul Gawande intuition medicine pain I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle. Atul Gawande medicine team thinking At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't. Atul Gawande medicine differences caring «1234567891011»