Antonia Bird Quotes

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

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.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Hospitals are about healing.

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Medicine is so fascinating.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

I was cured all right.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

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.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.