Quotes of: Medicines Keyword

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

William Osler

The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing - is uncertainty. With all that we know nowadays about people and...

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

I was not brought up to know the Earth in intimate detail. No one I can remember from my childhood ever suggested that the land I lived on and was surrounded by contained anything important to me. My sense of kinship was connected to my house, my bed...

The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is d...

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously...

This Place Called Absence

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

Eden Lake

Pheromones didn't care about tomorrow. They didn't care about education or employment or age.

The Best Medicine

Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

Cynthia Kenyon

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Barry Commoner

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Sabriel

The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.

First Aide Medicine

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Mehmet Oz

If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out?

oladosu feyikogbon

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Thomas Szasz

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Karl von Frisch

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

Mitch Kapor

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert Trout

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander