Medical Profession Quotes

“Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed this claim for many years. But it simply isn't true!”
― Dr. Vernon Coleman

“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“I read a report that said 88% of adults trust their doctors - well, 100% of dead people don't!”
― Stewart Stafford

“Your warmth has more healing power upon the patient than all the medical tools in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Be aware of the whole domain of sickness - be aware of its implications in human life - be aware of its farthest reach in the life of the patient as well as the lives of the next of kin - be aware of its deepest roots, for that very awareness is the very foundation of true diagnosis, which automatically brings along the awareness of wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“There is no painkiller as effective as love, no anti-depressant as soothing as cheer, no defibrillator as powerful as wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle
Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.”
― Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

“As a doctor, you don’t practice medicine, rather you become the medicine yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“There may be medical tools in your hands to treat the patient, but those hands must be that of a loving, warm and conscientious human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts”
― Steven Magee

“It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.”
― Gary Hopkins

“Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.”
― Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

“Understanding sickness in its whole form, reach and impact, automatically brings along the insight into wellness, just like understanding chaos with all its nuances brings along the true practical perception of harmony and the means to achieve it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Wellness is not the lack of sickness, but the capacity to overcome sickness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Sick are not those who possess a sickness, but those who are possessed by sickness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“A life saved is a family saved.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“PACE trial is a fault line between the way we did medicine (secretive, clubbable) and the way we should do medicine (transparent, shared)... PACE is turning out to be the science controversy of the decade: it indicts the medical ecosystem of review”
― Trevor Butterworth

“Wow! tarnished drew me right into the diabolical world of Dale and Isabel. They are two of the most coldblooded killers the medical profession may have ever produced. --- Valerie Graves of New York - an Internationally known Advertising and Marketing Executive who also was creative consultant for the '92 Clinton/Gore campaign”
― Willie Stewart Sr., taRNished

“Yet the denial of feelings is one way of blocking the chronic depression that can descend like a dense fog on those who deal day after day with sickness and death. It is better than not caring at all, better than burning out. Only a few are tough enough to maintain both equanimity and caring for a lifetime; these renowned nurses and legendary physicians are saints of the medical profession. Copper knew a few of them, and he wished he could be more like them. It took a lot of growing up.”
― Richard S. Weeder, Surgeon: The View from Behind the Mask

“Several years ago, I realized that I didn’t want to spend all my life in medicine. It had me in a sort of spiritual box, like a plant whose roots are getting crowded. I felt I wasn’t growing. So I promised myself that I would quit while I still had the energy to get involved in something new. There’s nothing wrong with medicine. There’s more paperwork, more lawsuits, less understanding between doctors and patients. But it’s still a great business. But not for me - not any longer.”
― Richard S. Weeder, Surgeon: The View from Behind the Mask

“From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead, and what his disciples experienced were mere hallucinations evoked by the grief over the loss of their beloved teacher. It is clinically known as “Post-Bereavement Hallucinations Experiences” or PBHE.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“Being a doctor is unlike any other profession on earth. Being a doctor is the closest real thing that we can have on earth to being a God with the power to sustain life. Gods are imaginary, but Doctors are not. They are actual living beings on earth, with the actual expertise of giving life to others.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Being a doctor, is not simply about having an understanding of anatomy and sickness, rather it is about having an understanding of true wellness and more importantly, it is about understanding the intensity of the concern of the patient’s next of kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I wonder, for instance, if our laws reflect some deep aversion amongst medical professionals here towards the idea of relinquishing control of the dying process into the hands of the patient. I wonder if this aversion might stem from a more general belief in the medical profession that death represents a form of failure. And I wonder if this belief hasn’t seeped out into the wider world in the form of an aversion to the subject of death per se, as if the stark facts of mortality can be banished from our consciousness altogether.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I wonder, for instance, if our laws reflect some deep aversion amongst medical professionals here towards the idea of relinquishing control of the dying process into the hands of the patient. I wonder if this aversion might stem from a more general belief in the medical profession that death represents a form of failure.”
― Cory Taylor, Dying: A Memoir