There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others. – Ben Goldacre
I’ve been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I’ve read the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ and Rumi, and these are very important. – Andie MacDowell
The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated. – Alex Berenson
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. – Bill Rancic
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. – Alastair Campbell
Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work. – Bennet Omalu
I believe gelato is meant to be treated as medicine and taken daily as a prescription. – Betsy Brandt
I think I don’t want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope. – Andrea Bocelli
Look, the, the – this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we’re going to have to take our medicine. – Alexi Giannoulias
Mind-body medicine should not be an ‘alternative,’ nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training. – Bernie Siegel
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. – Bill James
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered. – B. R. Ambedkar
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It’s like you’re practicing medicine, but you’re not a doctor. – Bikram Choudhury
We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine. – Anne Wilson Schaef
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio. – Al Lewis
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. – Albert Murray
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race. – Bernard Marcus
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face. – Bernie Siegel
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that’s the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers. – Clayton Christensen
I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better. – Atul Gawande
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. – Carol Vorderman
Oh gosh, I’m completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It’s not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just… obligatory. – Ava DuVernay
I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad’s footsteps and become a doctor. – Alistair Brownlee
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine. – Arthur Kornberg
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine. – Aaron Ciechanover
Is it really that important? It’s just television, for God’s sake. It’s not medicine or something. – Craig Ferguson
I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them. – Billy Graham