“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger th…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, ... But I guess that was exactly what I did.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.”— Alexander Fleming, en.wikiquote.org
“Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuousl…”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“The pharmaceutical industry is not really in the business of promoting health; instead it makes money off disease.”— Joseph Mercola, amazon.com
“Did industrial farming eliminate some forms of farming? Absolutely, but it amplified our capacity to produce agricultural goods. Not all of this was good, but it allowed us to feed more people. When you use a phone, you amplify the power of human speech. You cannot shout from New York to California…”— Geoffrey Hinton, newyorker.com
“I think that if you work as a radiologist you are like Wile E. Coyote in the cartoon. You’re already over the edge of the cliff, but you haven’t yet looked down. There’s no ground underneath. It’s just completely obvious that in five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists. It mi…”— Geoffrey Hinton, newyorker.com
“Vaccination, which was the first effort to manipulate our immune responses, is essentially one of the greatest advance in protecting human health. Entire pathogenic species have been essentially eradicated by this kind of effective process where you expose an individual to some form of a pathogen an…”— Jennifer Doudna, ibiology.org
“For many people with OCD, the symptoms ebb and flow over the course of their lifetime.”— Rafi Letzter, businessinsider.com
“No medicine can be considered truly healing if its effects do not automatically render it obsolete in a reasonable amount of time.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die, so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.”— Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“Everyone deserves to feel the normal range of emotions without having to be depressed or anxious to the point that it interferes with enjoying life.”— Laura Gaffney, nytimes.com
“Antidepressants are not supposed to suppress a person’s emotions. Ideally, they are supposed to prevent a person’s mood from going too low. The antidepressants should not interfere with people feeling excited, sad, nervous or irritable when they need to feel these emotions. If an antidepressant is m…”— Laura Gaffney, nytimes.com
“Acupuncture is a component of traditional Chinese medicine, which involves sticking the skin with small needles to stimulate the body at certain points. Researchers from the Oriental Hospital at Kyung Hee University Medical Center in South Korea found that acupuncture might have positive effects on…”— Sabrina Bachai, medicaldaily.com