Medical Treatment Quotes

“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.”
― Ian Spector, The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human

“You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

“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

“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

“MEDICINE means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“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

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

“The coronavirus outbreak feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone. I went to see a doctor the other day, and they told me to wear a face mask. Then they said how much it would cost to see the doctor and I told them THEY were the ones who should be wearing masks!”
― Stewart Stafford

“MEDICINE means Mercy – Empathy – Dare – Integrity – Care – Ingenuity – and Ethics.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Medicine Means (The Sonnet)

MEDICINE means Mercy,
MEDICINE means Empathy,
MEDICINE means Dare,
MEDICINE means Integrity,
MEDICINE means Care,
MEDICINE means Ingenuity,
MEDICINE means Nobility,
MEDICINE means Ethicality.
Medicine is not a profession,
Medicine is but a sacred calling.
An average doctor saves a body,
A good doctor saves a being.
Pathogens exist to cash in on sickness.
A doctor exists to be lost among patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“An average doctor saves a body, a good doctor saves a being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Modern medicine, as everyone knows by now, can be spectacularly successful and woefully inadequate. It alternately inspires praise and condemnation.”
― Larry Dossey

“Xuan pulled out his phone and searched Google. He had to ask for the correct spelling of the drug. He wanted more real information about how much of a financial burden he would be to his parents. Money was a big concern. Possibly a deal breaker.

“Several sites—it’s around five hundred dollars a day! That’s fifteen thousand a month! How could I let my parents pay that much for me?”

Fifteen thousand dollars. I gasped, appalled. I staggered to the chair and collapsed into it. He’ll never agree to that.

Xuan opened his mouth and closed it again, in shock. The atmosphere in the room plunged from friendly and informative to frigid with mathematical figures and calculations.
I sat with my elbows on my knees, my face buried in my hands. Saints, I knew cancer treatment was expensive, but I never imagined it was that expensive. That was too much. Ironically, I didn’t know if I could live with myself, knowing my parents were working day and night to keep me alive. That would be a huge financial responsibility. I just couldn’t imagine allowing it, month after month. Sadly, I wondered how many people died every year because of the cost of medication in the United States. In a way, it seemed like pharmaceutical companies were getting away with murder.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You

“Not every sickness is psychosomatic, but a weak psyche can indeed make a sickness worse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Medicine is not about the doctors, it is about the patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Just because you may be suspicious of establishment medicine (perhaps for good reason) does not mean you should accept everything from non-establishment “experts”.”
― Charles F Glassman

“There's a way around almost every obstacle, you just need to find it”
-Julie Randall”
― Julie Randall, Patient 71

“Living in the second half of the twentieth century, I realized, confers no automatic protection against unwise or even dangerous drugs and methods. Each age has had to undergo its own special nostrums. (Chapter 1)”
― Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

“Celebrities are not health experts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Most women did not begin their days by stabbing a man in the scrotum, but Georgia Brown was not most women.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Antidote For Everything

“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“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

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

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

“If I were growing up today, I probably would be diagnosed on the autism spectrum.”
― Bill Gates, Source Code - Meine Anfänge