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.
“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.”
“Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.”
“There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.”
“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.”
“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
“I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”
“Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'”
“To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.”
“It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.”
“I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.”
“But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
“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.”