For many people managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy acupuncture yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind body and spirit.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine never seen an operation.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

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

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer and with the medicine she was on this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

By keeping my hand in that it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I began the study of medicine impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine a knowledge of chemistry and of some branches of natural history and indeed of several other departments of science affords useful assistance.

Make hunger thy sauce as a medicine for health.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs promote the development of safe effective medicines and guarantee patient rights.

But if you're asking my opinion I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

America has the best doctors the best nurses the best hospitals the best medical technology the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry lost knowledge by study lost health by temperance or medicine but lost time is gone forever.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health sometimes gives it.