“We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.”
Medicine sits at the intersection of science and humanity. These quotes come from doctors, patients, researchers, and caregivers who understand that healing involves more than just treating symptoms — it requires seeing the whole person.
“I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.”
“We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.”
“I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.”
“All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.”
“The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.”
“I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.”
“I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.”
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.”
“I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.”
“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.”
“What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.”
“I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.”
“I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.”
“Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.”
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
“Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.”