If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill so he gave him another six months.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time when you get out of bed it's feet first!

I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Each year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

Water, air and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Acting 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.

And 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!

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same but the medical practice changes.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Death 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.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Science 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.

We 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.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Patience. Doctors need more patience, not patients.

We 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.

The medicine increases the disease.

Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Water 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.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

When 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.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

In 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.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress, when I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

The 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.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s before we had any government. It worked rather well and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease, and music to create harmony must investigate discord.

The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.

We may have found a cure for most evils, but we have found no remedy for the worst of them, all the apathy of human beings.

Learning is a friend on the journey, a wife in the house, medicine in sickness, and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Getting 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.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

You know if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

These 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.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too the negation of dharmas. This corollary has elsewhere been illustrated by the simile of medicine which can heal any ill

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options medically and emotionally: give up or Fight Like Hell.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

The only medicine for suffering crime and all other woes of mankind is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Surely every medicine is an innovation and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

I have to tell you the things I have told you often before, for until digestion is well established medicine has to be taken.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared, an act of charity which he has performed, domestic conflicts, private affairs with his wife, poorly prepared food he may have been offered, or slang he may have heard.

We should secure and keep the following: the blessings of meritorious deeds wealth grain the words of the spiritual master and rare medicines. Otherwise life becomes impossible.

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

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

A 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.