There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners morals and medicine.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself people are just amazed.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

That's the thing. in medicine you're used to saying there's a problem within the person and saying there's a problem within the culture that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

For many people managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy acupuncture yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind body and spirit.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine never seen an operation.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.