If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill.
Jalaluddin RumiFirst the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve MartinA doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill so he gave him another six months.
Henny YoungmanBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainEvery human being is the author of his own health or disease.
BuddhaThe miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
William ShakespeareMy son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time when you get out of bed it's feet first!
Henny YoungmanI'm so mean, I make medicine sick.
Muhammad AliMuch of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil GibranEach year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.
Dave BarryWater, air and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon BonaparteI went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Deepak ChopraActing is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.
Ingrid BergmanAnd I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim ValvanoSome critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya AngelouDeath is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf you want total security go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. EisenhowerScience may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerWe can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother TeresaMedicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
OvidPatience. Doctors need more patience, not patients.
Sai BabaWe can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack ObamaThe medicine increases the disease.
VirgilGenes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.
Dave BarryVaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Samuel ButlerWater is the medicine for indigestion, it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested, it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner, and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
ChanakyaIf your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Satchel PaigePreventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
Deepak ChopraWhen any educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to make a business out of it. There are only a few who are ready to set up such institutions to provide free facilities for the poor.
Sai BabaMedicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl MarxIn almost every profession - whether it's law, or journalism, finance, or medicine, or academia, or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.
Hillary ClintonI told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny YoungmanThe same person has come to Me seeking success at the examination then a job then a father-in-law then a child then a rise in the salary a transfer in a cheaper place and a seat in the Medical College for his son - a never ending series of wants until at last he comes seeking My Grace for an end to worldly pursuits and for initiation into the path of spirituality.
Sai BabaGetting 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.
Erma BombeckThese technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve JobsWhen I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny YoungmanA Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
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