Disinfectant…it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. – Donald Trump “Doctor” Trump comes up with cure for coronavirus, disinfectant jabs. Critics immediately labeled his suggestions as dangerous.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. – Gerald F. Lieberman
I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. – Hasnat Khan
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. – Mother Teresa
I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here. – Hugh Laurie
After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well. – Harald zur Hausen
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. – George Balanchine
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. – J. G. Ballard
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. – Jerome K. Jerome
It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what’s going on. It can be a very positive thing. – Itzhak Perlman
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with. – Ian Mckellen
Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list. – Jasper Carrott
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. – Jay Leno
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer – a personal fantasy that I’ve fed into my fiction. – J. G. Ballard
Modern medicine uses imaging ‘windows’ such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians can use for the benefit of their patients. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody. – John Barrasso
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle. – Atul Gawande
Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is. – Alex Gibney
I’m the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India. – Alicia Keys
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That’s all we need to know. They shouldn’t be saccharine. They shouldn’t feel like medicine. – Ava DuVernay
I’m taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I’m taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer. – Jimmy Carter
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark. – Anne Wojcicki
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair. – Alice Dreger