Medical Quotes

“Where in a medical dictionary does it say a woman cannot handle such things? What is a man's soul made of that a woman's is not? I had no idea my innards were composed of cotton and kittens, while yours are filled with steel and steam-driven parts.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“A smart patient realizes that the person most capable of diagnosing and treating their health issues is themselves.”
― Steven Magee

“In modern society, it is not enough to be an engineer, a doctor, a chemist, a biologist, or a physicist, you must be all of them to understand why human health is failing on such a massive scale.”
― Steven Magee

“When using the medical profession, you must remember that it is influenced by many corporations that may not want your health issues to be fully understood and correctly treated.”
― Steven Magee

“The most important thing that I learned from a decade of using the medical profession is that you need to supervise your doctors.”
― Steven Magee

“Could it be that despite all the years I spent in medical school and residency training acquiring specialized knowledge and practical skills, that this expertise mattered little to my patients' overall health?”
― Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

“Medicines ensures lengthy life but not necessarily healthy life.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You look better than sleep.”
― Kimberly Kincaid, Back to You

“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.”
― Steven Magee

“Rather than being fearful of not detecting disease, both patients and doctors should fear healthcare. The best way to avoid medical errors is to avoid medical care. The default should be: I am well. The way to stay that way is to keep making good choices - not to have my doctor look for problems.”
― John Mandrola

“After years of voyaging through the USA medical system and taking prescription drugs, I was sicker than when I started the process.”
― Steven Magee

“We are in the potent prescription drugs era of humanity.”
― Steven Magee

“The more I interact with the medical profession, the more I form the opinion that it is riddled with incompetence.”
― Steven Magee

“After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.”
― Steven Magee

“Many people from the UK have the impression that the USA medical profession is the best in the world. After a decade of treatment from them, I had concluded that it is a very expensive system that is riddle with incompetence and delivers mediocre care.”
― Steven Magee

“A furious researcher stumbled out of one of the lab buildings and shouted, 'I'm a scientist working on the AIDS cure. Why are you here? You are making too much noise.' It was a statement that epitomized the vast and growing rift between scientists and patients.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. Having spent the afternoon planning the next phase of Herceptin trials with breast oncologists at ASCO, Slamon had jumped into his rundown Nissan and driven home.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Sleep disorders are commonly misdiagnosed as mental health disorders.”
― Steven Magee

“In nature, ecosystems consist of fauna and flora, climatic characteristics, soil conditions, geologic features, and a host of other interacting influences. Similarly, the precision medicine ecosystem is made of many interacting components, including patients, clinicians, researchers, laboratory services, CDS software, genomic databases, smartphones, servers, claims data, mobile apps, biobanks to store clinical specimens, and EHRs. EHRs need to serve as gateways to this ecosystem. And for the EHR to become an effective conduit, it needs a way to organize these diverse sources in a way that lets clinicians and patients make more effective diagnostic and treatment decisions.”
― Paul Cerrato, Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine: The Role of Patient Data, Mobile Technology, and Consumer Engagement

“Treat your feet the way you treat your face”
― dr suzanne levine

“Time heals small wounds.”
― Brendan Lawley, Bonesland

“Surgery is easy; it's recovery that's hard.”
― Alexis Dupree, Knee Replacement Advice, Checklists, and Journal - 5 Steps for Successful Recovery Even If You Have Complications: Practical Advice from a Patient

“Give your knee replacement a name so you can swear at it. Trust me, you'll swear at it like a sailor many, many times. And when friends ask about it by its name, you can whine to your heart's content. It's not you who's whining; it's your named knee replacement.”
― Alexis Dupree, Knee Replacement Advice, Checklists, and Journal - 5 Steps for Successful Recovery Even If You Have Complications: Practical Advice from a Patient

“The medical profession excels at fixing broken bones but fails miserably at fixing general sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?”
― Steven Magee

“There are no doubts that the medical profession is heavily influenced by drug corporations to put you on a toxic cocktail of expensive prescription drugs.”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession may make you sicker and kill you prematurely if you let them.”
― Steven Magee

“Notably, however, AD is not a communicable disease, and unless you eat the brain of your demented professor, there is little risk of acquiring AD via an infectious prion.”
― Harald Sontheimer, Diseases of the Nervous System

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“We have realized a disheartening reaction from people who will abandon a life long relationship when someone develops an impaired memory. They sometimes actually say something like, "Well, if they don't know who I am, there's no use visiting them." 
Memo to those people: This isn't about you.
Your friend is still your friend, and your family member is still your family member, even in an impaired state. If you can still bring a moment of companionship, it is worth your time. If you can hold their hand or read them a story or a favorite Psalm or show them some funny videos on your phone, do it. This is about your friend or loved one in their time of need. This isn't about your feeling "uncomfortable" and therefore running away. This is about sacrifice. About giving. About doing something for someone else, even when your emotions are urging you to flee.”
― Dave Meurer, New Every Day: Navigating Alzheimer's with Grace and Compassion