#medical

Time is generally the best doctor. ↗

— Ovid

#best #doctor #generally #time

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#black #condition #four #i #intelligent

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all. ↗

— Jack Dee

#admit #allergic #also #annoy #around

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

#basic #been #component #confined #developments

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#afford #doctor #i #offered #operation

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#because #city #go #jew #medical

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#days #every #full #i #lead

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#access #canadians #committed #critical #determine

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. ↗

— Hippocrates

#cannot #doctor #doing #good #harm