“Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
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.
“Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.”
“Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
“Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
“As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.”
“I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.”
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
“It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?”
“People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.”
“Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.”
“The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.”
“My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.”
“I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.”
“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.”