Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

The practice of physic [Medicine] is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

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 am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The community at large is under definite obligations to see to it that physicians and scientific men are not needlessly hampered in carrying on the inquiries necessary for an adequate performance of their important social office of sustaining human life and vigor.

With the right policies and regulations, the opportunities for American medical advancement and scientific innovation are boundless.