“ You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain. Kiersten White
“ Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you Walt Whitman
“ At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. Herbert M. Shelton
“ Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights. Anurag Shourie
“ In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed. Oche Otorkpa
“ The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out. Fran Macilvey
“ Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to… Otis Webb Brawley
“ Nothing is invented; nothing is extraneous. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own [. . .] this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate mo… Siddhartha Mukherjee
“ Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. Having spent the afternoon planning the next phase of Herceptin trials with brea… Siddhartha Mukherjee
“ A furious researcher stumbled out of one of the lab buildings and shouted, 'I'm a scientist working on the AIDS cure. Why are you here? You are making too much noise.' It was a statement that epitomiz… Siddhartha Mukherjee
“ Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.) Stephen B. Pearl
“ I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking tha… Michael J. Collins
“ So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and… Herbert M. Shelton
“ There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands. Herbert M. Shelton
“ The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless. Prudence Hayes
“ It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions. John E. Sarno
“ Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation. John E. Sarno
