Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you’re obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we’re talking about in entertainment. You can’t get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.
I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.
I’m human, we all are – all doctors are – and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you’d get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.
I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
When you have a senior citizen who can’t afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people’s money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don’t go broke.
In medicine, there’s a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it’s there, it’s there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book – indeed, every new story – is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.
A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide factual information, and if necessary, goad the people into action – that too is not easy in the current political and business environment.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don’t have enough coming into physics and engineering. It’s a really weird thing because, of course, all these subjects are completely neutral.
I’m great at a deathbed. I’ve never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I’ve given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
That’s the Indian in me – you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil’s Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they’ve been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world’s foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine.
The entertainment industry isn’t a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I’m not sure he knew what to do with himself!
Cell-based and regenerative medicine can restore human functions lost to disease, including returning some sight to the blind.
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we’ve been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.
I studied the sciences up until going to college, and I was either going to do medicine or drama. I chose drama, but I come from a whole line of doctors.
The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn’t working.
Artemisinin… is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That’s amazing.
My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person’s medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day.
All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law – everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it’s still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It’s easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late.
I don’t have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder – the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine.
The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
This career is a relentless hustle because Hollywood is crowded with too many smart, talented people pursuing the same dream and the same pool of entertainment investment dollars. And unlike in law or medicine, there are no college degrees required – no barriers to entry.
Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you’re practicing, whether that’s medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.
The predicate of modern medicine is, ‘We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.’
Earth heals me better than any medicine.
People always mention that they’d love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it’s time – laughter being the best medicine.
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
From our research experience in discovering artemisinin, we learned the strengths of both Chinese and Western medicine. There is great potential for future advances if these strengths can be fully integrated.
A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.
Country music has taken so many forms, and I’ve always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in love with country music through Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Old Crow Medicine Show or whomever – just get in and start digging!
