“In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first few minutes of a play.”— Barry Trivers, Leonard McCoy, DeForest Kelley, imdb.com
“Life is pointless, Gandhi, and I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. The only thing more pointless than life itself is being a doctor. I mean, bottom line, you spend 8 years and 200 G's trying to get through med school and what do you have to show for it? I'll tell ya. A diploma on your wall, and…”— Debra Fordham, Perry Cox, John C. McGinley, imdb.com
“Marijuana is a perfect medicine. It replaces so many dangerous psychotic medicines that we're giving kids to calm them down. It's a safe sleep aid. It's been proven to kill cancer cells, and that alone should be put on a whole different pedestal. And you can see the problem there: Because it does cu…”— Tommy Chong, rollingstone.com
“We lose many battles in medicine. But few things are as satisfying as rushing a bleeding patient to the operating room and performing an emergent splenectomy to save his life. This is why I became a surgeon. This is why I'll never give up.”— Eugene Gu, MD, twitter.com
“Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“It is those within medicine who have the ability—and bear the responsibility—to solve these problems. But particular in this #metoo moment, I believe there is enormous power in women sharing their stories. One thing I didn’t fully appreciate at the start of my research is just how much silence surro…”— Maya Dusenbery, feministing.com
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Trump has repeatedly called for drug-price reform. Last year he called out big pharma for “getting away with murder.” Yet by nominating Azar he just sent a clear message to industry. It’s open season.”— James Elliott, thenation.com
“Since insulin literally keeps people alive, the Big 3 insulin producers have already tried to argue that value is a good reason to keep the prices high.”— James Elliott, thenation.com
“It was found that broth in which the mould had been grown at room temperature for one or two weeks had acquired marked inhibitory, bacteriocidal and bacteriolytic properties to many of the more common pathogenic bacteria.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“While working with staphylococcus variants a number of culture-plates were set aside on the laboratory bench and examined from time to time. In the examinations these plates were necessarily exposed to the air and they became contaminated with various micro-organisms. It was noticed that around a la…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to te…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com