Medical Profession Quotes

“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”
― Elyn R. Saks

“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as not really sick and not really suffering. What the patient comes to require in these circumstances, in the absence of help, are facts—tests and studies that show that they might “in fact” have something.”
― Joseph Dumit

“All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.”
― Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation

“...he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“When I went to the medical profession complaining of fatigue and forgetfulness, they diagnosed me with Mental Illness, Sleep Apnea and Small Airways Disease. What I actually had was far larger and included Altitude Hypersensitivity, Circadian Rhythm Disorder and Urea Cycle Disorder, and all of them cause fatigue and forgetfulness!”
― Steven Magee

“Medicine means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics, or it can mean Mechanical, Egotistical, Dehumanizing, Indifferent, Cold, Insensitive, Nincompoop Elitist. You decide what you practice, and your decision will determine what you are - a doctor or a butcher!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Blind idealism is a death sentence."
-- T,D. Severin -- Deadly Vision”
― T.D. Severin, Deadly Vision

“Residents' Survival Guide Who Work 110 Hours per Week

• When there is a question between a resident and a nurse, the nurse always wins.
• Residents can be replaced. Nurses cannot.
• When in doubt about a patient, call your senior staff to keep them informed.
• Always ask for help if you don’t know how to do something surgically.
• When called by the nurse, see the patient and the nurse to assess a problem.
• Answer your pages promptly.
• Learn to prioritize the many tasks that you have.
• Tell it like it is! Don’t lie! Get the correct information.
• Engage in damage control when making a mistake. Accept liability for actions.
• Be courteous to others. Remember that respect breeds respect.
• Be a team player. What goes around comes around.
• Own your education. Invest time and effort in surgical practice.
• Be punctual; others depend on you. Respect their time.
• Document for the record often, wholly and accurately.
• Be helpful to fellow residents who become your colleagues and friends for life.
• Develop the skills to be efficient, dependable, and trustworthy.
• Sign in and sign out to avoid errors in management.
• Write a summary note to ensure continuity of patient care upon leaving the service.”
― Dr Michael M.Meguid

“Once you realize the medical profession is heavily corrupted, researching human health becomes so much easier!”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession could not diagnose my low blood oxygen levels. It fell onto me to purchase a recording pulse oximeter and detect the erratic blood oxygenation levels.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“If you can't feel the difference between a scalpel and a cleaver, there is no difference between a doctor and a butcher.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Women figured out the aging hormone connection decades ago with hormone replacement therapy. Aging men are kept dumb by the medical profession about their need for testosterone replacement therapy!”
― Steven Magee

“Many people are bankrupted by their vacation at the hospital resort for sick people.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you find it strange that the COVID-19 vaccine was developed in just one year but Long COVID is still a mystery to the medical profession?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you find it unusual that the medical profession can develop a COVID-19 vaccine in just one year but do not understand Long COVID and how to treat it?”
― Steven Magee

“Healthcare means aid first, rules later.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“To control disease is called treatment,
To be aware of health is called wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“USA kids doctor: 'Your healthy kids checked out just fine on their annual check-up. That will be $500 please'.”
― Steven Magee

“If it wasn't for USA medical insurance, doctors would be broke as hardly anyone would pay their expensive fees!”
― Steven Magee

“The doctor was clueless!”
― Steven Magee

“Doctors are taught to write expensive prescriptions and lots of them!”
― Steven Magee

“When you are having to fight with your doctors to have basic medical tests done, you know you are dealing with a corrupted medical profession.”
― Steven Magee

“Many patients are misdiagnosed by the medical profession.”
― Steven Magee

“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)

We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don't bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.

Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.

We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.

Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“The internet was a far better doctor than anyone I met in the medical profession.”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession told me that I needed a prescription for cholesterol medication. Several types of cholesterol medications were prescribed and none worked on me. They all made me feel worse! I stopped taking cholesterol medications years ago and I feel fine!”
― Steven Magee

“It is now nearly a quarter of a century since I was startled into a review of my own work on the surgery of the arteries, and led to the humiliating recognition of the fact that the conclusions obtained from a series of experiments on animals could not be applied to man, and that our efforts to adapt them were leading us into serious surgical blunders. An extended investigation into which I was further attracted by the rising discussion of this question forced upon me the opinion that Syme and Fergusson were right when they stoutly asserted that surgery had in no way been advanced by experiments on animals. I knew these two men intimately. . . . They were the two greatest surgeons I have ever known. . . . I decide altogether against vivisection, because it is inherently objectionable from my religious point of view, because it is clumsy and inexact, and because it has very frequently, if indeed it has not always, been found altogether misleading.— Prof. LAWSON TAIT (1896)”
― Frances Power Cobbe, The Antivivisection Question

“It's okay to be wrong. In science, when people get things wrong when little information is available, the are being human. But when they make absolutist claims for years that go against overwhelming medical evidence simply to protect an institution's or political party's brand, they are propagandists”
― Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

“Asking questions has become forbidden in some circles. But asking questions is not the problem, it's the solution.”
― Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health