#medicine

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#afford #become #healthy #important #increasingly

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ↗

— William Osler

#educate #first #masses #medicine #physician

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#medicine #scope-of-government #wisdom #food

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#medicine #mind #science #humor

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#humor #lover-enshrined #medicine #humor

In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#medicine

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?" "If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#medicine #humor

In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #medicine #money #humor

Basch: So why don't you ask her out? The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no. -So what? What have you got to lose? -The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility. ↗

— Samuel Shem

#love #medicine #dating

Men that look no further than outside think health an appurtenance unto life and quarrel with our condition of being sick. But I who have looked at the innermost parts of man and known what tender filaments that fabric hangs on oft wonder that we are not always so. And considering the thousand doors that lead to death do thank our God that I can die but once". ↗

— Sir Thomas Browne

#death