Top 1200 Medical History Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.

For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, [the Torah] the sacred writings of the Jewish people ... They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other people has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources.

There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

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.

I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don't regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It is history. Each step where we worked together was a privilege, and in terms of history, that was necessary.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

I never thought that I would pursue a cappella music. I went to Yale College and I was going to go into the medical field.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the history of slavery, of poverty, of the negotiation of power.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

I mean it's always good to document your history. 'Cos for some strange reason black history has a tendency of getting lost. So I think it's beautiful to have the ability to document it.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Chelsea Manning has a platform to serve herself, but many veterans don't even get medical treatment when they need it.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

For me, 'Parmanu' was an awakening of sorts. The film is about a covert mission. It's sometimes unbelievable that we get to recreate a part of history and live an incident that made history and changed the way our country was perceived.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits.

We've seen some players dying from playing football, and the questions are why can't the medical team stop it from happening.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

Remarkable technological and medical advances allowed me to be a mom. But it is expensive and not always a viable or effective option.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.