Haldol Medicine Quotes

If you think about it, the public perception of funky brain chemistry has been as varied and weird as the symptoms, historically speaking.

If I had been born a Native American in another time, I might have been lauded as a medicine man. My voices would have been seen as the voices of ancestors imparting wisdom. I would have been treated with great mystical regard.

If I had lived in biblical times, I might have been seen as a prophet, because, let's face it, there are really only two possibilities: either prophets were actually hearing God speaking to them, or they were mentally ill. I'm sure if an actual prophet surfaced today, he or she would receive plenty of Haldol injections, until the sky opened up and the doctors were slapped silly by the Hand of God.

In the Dark Ages my parents would have sent for an exorcist, because I was clearly possessed by evil spirits, or maybe even the Devil himself.

And if I lived in Dickensian England, I would have been thrown into Bedlam, which is more than just a description of madness. It was an actual place - a "madhouse" where the insane were imprisoned in unthinkable conditions.

Living in the twenty-first century gives a person a much better prognosis for treatment, but sometimes I wish I'd lived in an age before technology. I would much rather everyone think I was a prophet than some poor sick kid. ~ Neal Shusterman

Indian Nadi System of Medicine is not much part of traditional Ayurveda, Unani, or yoga but part of a few ancient oral and family medicine traditions of India. ~ Amit Ray

Not from my point of view ... [Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine. ~ Rudy Giuliani

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. ~ Abraham Verghese

Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies. ~ Albert Einstein

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. ~ Tim Minchin

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ~ William Osler

Indian System of Medicine is not just traditional Ayurveda, unani, or yoga but also a vast field of ancient oral and family medicine traditions. Especially nadi based gut-brain axis modulation medicines are most effective for terminal illness. ~ Amit Ray

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all ~ William Osler

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine ... ~ Mao Zedong

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble. ~ Kenneth Kamler

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment. ~ James Cook

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment? ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health. ~ Rajneesh

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ~ James Bryce

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is. ~ Alex Gibney

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow. ~ Jim Cooper

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine - conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted. ~ Marcia Angell

Fasting is the first principle of medicine. ~ Rumi

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic. ~ Julian Whitaker

Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom. ~ Karen Rose

I'm sorry, 'herbal medicine', "Oh, herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri, so knock yourselves out. ~ Dara O Briain

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine. ~ James B. Utt

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine. ~ Abraham Verghese

Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish. ~ Anna Quindlen

Medicine's a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative. ~ Charles F. Glassman

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine. ~ Vinod Khosla

Haldol is an antipsychotic." He dropped his reading glasses into his shirt pocket. "It was used in the Soviet prison system to break prisoners' wills." "And I'm only discovering it now?" I said. ~ Maria Semple

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't. ~ Derek Theler

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine. ~ Chris Kilham

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine. ~ John Hughlings Jackson

Personalized medicine is an art that advocates for the patient, not the pocket or convenience of the medical system. ~ Melissa Cady

It's possible that the chief of trauma surgery has things backwards. It's possible, even likely, that for all military medicine contributes to specialized skilks, it actually detracts from civilian medicine be diverting resources, research, and personnel from medical practices more relevant and applicable to the general good. ~ Ann Jones

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ~ Hippocrates

Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine. ~ Jim Stovall

Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors. ~ Sun Simiao

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. ~ Anthony Bourdain

I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call 'square one of creation'. Which is where energy meets the process of incarnating. So I think it is very much going to become the dominant practice of medicine in this next millennium. We have no other place to go but there. ~ Caroline Myss

I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes. ~ Karl Pearson

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine). ~ John Bradshaw

Temporis ars medicina fere est.
Time is generally the best medicine. ~ Ovid

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. ~ Hippocrates

No medicine can compensate for un-healthy living. ~ Renu Chaudhary

Flattery was the best medicine, but even I gag on medicine. ~ Jemima Pett

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine. ~ Frank Miller

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. ~ Walter Raleigh

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians. ~ Ramakrishna

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine ~ Larry Evans

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ~ Robert Trout

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The highest degree of a medicine is Love. ~ Paracelsus

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease. ~ Sophocles

There is no medicine to cure a fool! ~ Bhartrhari

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else. ~ Randy Newman

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ~ Hippocrates

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

Walking is a man's best medicine. ~ Hippocrates

Food is better medicine than drugs ~ Patrick Holford

No doubt about it, allopathic medicine (the term used to describe conventional Western medicine) is superb at dealing with trauma and bacterial infections, but it is not nearly as effective as natural medicine at managing chronic pain, autoimmune disease, and degenerative conditions. ~ Marcellus A. Walker

Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high. ~ Kenneth Minogue

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual. ~ Mark Cuban

Great griefs medicine the less. ~ William Shakespeare

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. ~ Andrew Weil

Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine. ~ Eric Kandel

I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products? ~ Indra Nooyi

There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude. ~ Robert Atkins

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. ~ John Ortberg

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. ~ William Shakespeare

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting ~ Benjamin Franklin

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books ~ Paracelsus

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine. ~ Colin Angle

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era. ~ Charlotte Gerson

Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor." ~ Jim Gaffigan

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human. ~ Michael Burgess

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine. ~ Lucretius

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine. ~ Maggie Nelson

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine. ~ Tabare Vazquez

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. ~ Avicenna

Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea. ~ Chris Kilham

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic. ~ Chris Kilham

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests. ~ Richard Dawkins

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine. ~ Laurel Clark

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. ~ Austin O'Malley

Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug ~ Geoffrey Blainey

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind. ~ Raymond Tallis

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. ~ George Gordon Byron

I think time really is a medicine but, sometimes, it's hard to know how to swallow that medicine ~ Kim Jonghyun

The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball. ~ Rich Donnelly

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election! ~ Michele Bachmann

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. ~ Carol Vorderman

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well. ~ Harald Zur Hausen

The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. ~ Sarah Ruhl

There is no medicine to cure hatred. ~ Publilius Syrus

HAPPINESS
There is no medicine for acquiring happiness; in itself is the medicine. ~ Sirshree

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics. ~ Stephen Hawking

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health. ~ William Rathje

Good medicine always tastes bad. ~ Ron Hall

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds ... ~ Paula Gunn Allen

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine. ~ Dikembe Mutombo