Medical Application Quotes

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit? And the answer is, today, should the majority of people go and have their genome sequenced? Probably not. But are there particular circumstances in which genome sequencing is really helpful? Yes, there are.