Medical Impact Quotes

Every time I meet somebody who's been affected by something I worked on, I feel like, yes, that's what I want to do, whether the Children's Health Insurance Program or making drugs safer for kids or helping more kids get a doctor, whatever it might be.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

… if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. It must point out the hindrances that impede the normal social functioning of vital processes, and effect their removal

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.

I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

As a doctor, I understand how actions can affect lives.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?