#medical

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#bill #doctor #gave #i #live

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#cannot #created #destroyed #doctor #passion

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.' ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#access #care #get #giving #medical

Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony. ↗

— Otis Webb Brawley

#health #healthcare #medical #money #poor

But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be: and to study or influence these means, no less than the primary insult to the nervous system, is an essential part of our role as physicians. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#medical #science #inspirational

LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable. ↗

— H.S. Rissam

#cardiac-surgeon #cardiologist #echocardiolography #fiction #fiction-novel

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#health #illness #medical-treatment #natural-healing #nature

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. ↗

— Richard Selzer

#medical #medicine #passion #pathology #science

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#departments #each #emergency #essential #fire

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. ↗

— Tom Allen

#avenue #believe #community #congress #i