Top medical Quotes Collection - Page 17

Discover a curated collection of medical quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 17 provides more medical quotes.

Image of Goodluck Jonathan
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
- Goodluck Jonathan
Collection: Medical
Image of Kelly Evans
There is surprisingly low penetration still of synthetic rubber gloves in the medical field. People are allergic to natural rubber, but the industry has been slow to switch to synthetic gloves.
- Kelly Evans
Collection: Medical
Image of Sydney Brenner
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
- Sydney Brenner
Collection: Medical
Image of Busy Philipps
It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?
- Busy Philipps
Collection: Medical
Image of Marcus Luttrell
The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.
- Marcus Luttrell
Collection: Medical
Image of Harold E. Varmus
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
- Harold E. Varmus
Collection: Medical
Image of Jane Leavy
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.
- Jane Leavy
Collection: Medical
Image of Chesley Sullenberger
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
- Chesley Sullenberger
Collection: Medical
Image of Steven Pressfield
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.
- Steven Pressfield
Collection: Medical
Image of Eric Topol
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.
- Eric Topol
Collection: Medical
Image of Nathan Kress
I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.
- Nathan Kress
Collection: Medical
Image of Ron Paul
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
- Ron Paul
Collection: Medical
Image of Evelyn Lauder
My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.
- Evelyn Lauder
Collection: Medical
Image of W. Bruce Cameron
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
- W. Bruce Cameron
Collection: Medical
Image of Jimmy Fallon
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'
- Jimmy Fallon
Collection: Medical
Image of Daniel Nathans
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.
- Daniel Nathans
Collection: Medical
Image of Samuel Butler
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
- Samuel Butler
Collection: Medical
Image of Eula Biss
One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.
- Eula Biss
Collection: Medical
Image of Adam Curtis
Henrietta Lacks' cells are immortal. They are known as the HeLa cell line, and they have become deeply involved in all sorts of medical and genetic research - sometimes in the most unexpected ways.
- Adam Curtis
Collection: Medical
Image of Spencer Bachus
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
- Spencer Bachus
Collection: Medical
Image of Sheldon Whitehouse
Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Collection: Medical
Image of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Collection: Medical
Image of Tabare Vazquez
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
- Tabare Vazquez
Collection: Medical
Image of Pat Cadigan
I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
- Pat Cadigan
Collection: Medical
Image of Peter Singer
In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.
- Peter Singer
Collection: Medical
Image of Geoff Mulgan
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Medical
Image of Andrew Lansley
The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.
- Andrew Lansley
Collection: Medical
Image of Michelle Lujan Grisham
As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health effects on children, pregnant women and people living with mental illness.
- Michelle Lujan Grisham
Collection: Medical
Image of Amyra Dastur
My dad's side of the family was very poor while growing up, but my dadi raised three kids, got my dad through medical school, sent my uncle to America where he wanted to work and helped my aunt become an accountant, because that's what she wanted to do.
- Amyra Dastur
Collection: Medical
Image of Chris Toumazou
For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.
- Chris Toumazou
Collection: Medical
Image of Rod Lurie
We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in which our penal system is designed to treat blacks unfairly, and in which we let the medical and educational systems in our ghettos fester to the level of some third-world countries.
- Rod Lurie
Collection: Medical
Image of Margaret Sanger
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
- Margaret Sanger
Collection: Medical
Image of Eric Schmidt
I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
- Eric Schmidt
Collection: Medical
Image of Colin Firth
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
- Colin Firth
Collection: Medical
Image of Lewis Thomas
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
- Lewis Thomas
Collection: Medical
Image of M. S. Swaminathan
The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.
- M. S. Swaminathan
Collection: Medical
Image of Raveena Tandon
I wish every international or national corporate would be given a rule to set up companies in rural areas, where they would have to provide hospitals, schools, low-cost housing and free medical care, training, and then employment - but not on agricultural land.
- Raveena Tandon
Collection: Medical
Image of Steven Gundry
As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator.
- Steven Gundry
Collection: Medical
Image of Dale Archer
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
- Dale Archer
Collection: Medical
Image of Pardis Sabeti
I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
- Pardis Sabeti
Collection: Medical
Image of John Backus
They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
- John Backus
Collection: Medical
Image of Don Miguel Ruiz
I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
Collection: Medical
Image of Michelle Wolf
I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.
- Michelle Wolf
Collection: Medical
Image of Jack Kevorkian
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
- Jack Kevorkian
Collection: Medical
Image of Steven Hatfill
I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.
- Steven Hatfill
Collection: Medical
Image of Carl Levin
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
- Carl Levin
Collection: Medical
Image of Marilu Henner
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
- Marilu Henner
Collection: Medical
Image of Albert Claude
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
- Albert Claude
Collection: Medical
Image of Mikhail Varshavski
I was not a person who you would find on social media traditionally, but when I was introduced to Instagram, I saw it as a way to show other medical students on their journey that you don't have to give up your life to study medicine. The stigma that you can't have a life in medical school was a fallacy, and I was the living proof of that.
- Mikhail Varshavski
Collection: Medical