Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

medical

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

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

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

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.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.