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.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health but only itself as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony must investigate discord.