Medical Quotes

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.