#medicine

Aye, and for now, would you mind if I get you out of your clothes and wrap myself around you? It's medicinal you know? For your stitches...and my knee...and, I guess, all the rest of us. ↗

— Marquesate

#vadim #medicine

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#medicine #outlander #war #medicine

A traditional doctor gets paid to push pills, vaccinate, radiate, and basically exterminate people. No different than a contract killer—except the hit man is more honest, as he doesn’t claim to be helping humanity. Holistic medicine is the only way to go. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#exterminate #holistic #holistic-health #honest #humanity

Good medicine always tastes bad. ↗

— Ron Hall

#medicine

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believe #biology #determinism #doctors #done

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find. ↗

— Chester Brown

#culture #direction #find #look #medical

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#argue #asking #care #central #could

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#because #best #blame #constitutes #countries

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#body #instinctively #knows #less #medicine

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#forensic #how #i #interesting #invent