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i3 Quote of the Week (i3 QoW)

Based on an extraordinary collection of more than a year of Quotes of the Week (QoW) posted on i3 Consult’s social media presence from eminent physicians and key opinion leaders in healthcare, i3 Consult offer you here one of the most significant and unique digital collections of quotes from famous medics and the professional likes throughout the ages of medicine. The galleries reveal personal stories and their famous quotes reflecting on the development and transformation of healthcare at their time of writing. We hope you enjoy this unique step back in time on the history of medicine.

This Quote of the Week comes from an Athenian philosopher by the name Plato. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.The Academy he founded was by some accounts the world’s first university and in it he trained his greatest student, the equally influential philosopher Aristotle. Plato is best known as the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence.
This Quote of the week comes from a famous Greek physician known as Hippocrates of Kos. Hippocrates was often referred to as the "Father of Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine which was devoted to teaching the practice of medicine. During his time, most people attributed sickness to superstition and the wrath of the gods but Hippocrates taught that all forms of illness had a natural cause.
This Quote of the week comes from a famous Greek physician known as Hippocrates of Kos. Hippocrates was often referred to as the "Father of Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine which was devoted to teaching the practice of medicine. During his time, most people attributed sickness to superstition and the wrath of the gods but Hippocrates taught that all forms of illness had a natural cause.
This Quote of the week comes from a Greek physician named Hippocrates of Kos. He was refered to as the "Father of Medicine" due to his lasting contributions in the Medical field. He founded the Hippocratic School Of Medicine which revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece.
This Quote of the Week comes from a Greek physician who lived during Greece’s Classical period,Hippocrates, (born c. 460 bce, island of Cos, Greece—died c. 375 bce, Larissa, Thessaly).Medical historians generally look to Hippocrates as the founder of medicine as a rational science.It was Hippocrates who finally freed medicine fromthe shackles of magic, superstition, and the supernatural.
This Quote of the week comes from a famous Greek physician known as Hippocrates of Kos. Hippocrates was often referred to as the "Father of Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine which was devoted to teaching the practice of medicine. During his time, most people attributed sickness to superstition and the wrath of the gods but Hippocrates taught that all forms of illness had a natural cause.
This Quote of the week comes from Herophilos, who was a Greek physician. He is often referred to as "The Father of Anatomy" because he was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human cadavers. He recorded his findings in over nine works, which are now all lost.
This Quote of the week comes from Herophilos, who was a Greek physician. He is often referred to as "The Father of Anatomy" because he was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human cadavers. He recorded his findings in over nine works, which are now all lost.
This Quote of the week comes from Alexander Trallianus of Tralles who was one of the most eminent of the ancient physicians.Alexander attracted the admira­tion not only of medical historians, but also of modern doctors due to his direct experience in the practice of medicine and in the manifold aspects of providing and modifying treatments for patients. His clientele ranged from those in total poverty to those who were members of the highest ranks of society.
This Quote of the Week comes from Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina, who is better known in Europe by the Latinized name “Avicenna”. Avicenna was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He has been described as the father of early modern medicine because the modern medicine is laid upon the infrastructure of his medicine.Despite the fact that the medicine of Avicenna and in general the Islamic medicine was based on Hippocrates and Galenus, but according to the views of the researchers of history of medicine, Avicenna could over-ride both in theoretical medicine and practical medicine from his predecessors and his book of Canon could overshadow all previous scientific works.
This Quote of the Week comes from from Avicenna. He is probably the most significant philosopher in the Islamic tradition and arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era. His major work the Canon (al-Qanun fi’l-Tibb) continued to be taught as a medical textbook in Europe and in the Islamic world until the early modern period, and as a philosopher whose major summa the Cure (al-Shifa’) had a decisive impact upon European scholasticism and especially upon Thomas Aquinas.
This Quote of the Week comes from one of the pioneers of astronomy and medicine, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, famously known as Maimonides.He was a renowned rabbi, physician, philosopher, and also considered a prominent astronomer.
This Quote of the Week comes from a medieval French surgeon by the name Henri de Mondeville. He made a significant number of contributions to anatomy and surgery, and was the first Frenchman to author a surgical text, "La Chirurgie". Henri was a pupil of Theodoric and preceptor of Guy de Chauliac. Later as cleric-physician he was with Theodoric in Bologna, where he appreciated the method of dressing wounds that ran counter to practice of the time.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French physician and surgeon by the name Guy de Chauliac. He was one of the most eminent surgeon of the European Middle Ages and wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. In this article he describes a narcotic inhalation used as a soporific for surgical patients, as well as numerous surgical procedures, including those for hernia and cataract, which had previously been treated mainly by charlatans.His major work remained the principal didactic text on surgery until the 18th century.
This Quote of the Week comes from Leonardo da Vinci. He was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology and architecture. Leonardo is famously known for the Last Supper and Mona Lisa painting. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time.
This Quote of the Week comes from Thomas Sydenham, also known as “the English Hippocrates.”. He wrote the book "Observationes Medicae" which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries.He also discovered Sydenham's Chorea, also known as St Vitus Dance.
This Quote of the Week comes from a Swiss physician and alchemist by the name Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, famously known as Paracelsus. He changed his name to Paracelsus (‘equal to Celsus’) to indicate that he wanted to rival ancient medical authorities such as Galen and Celsus. He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. Paracelsus was one of the most influential medical scientists in early modern Europe and he is credited as the "Father of Toxicology".
This Quote of the Week comes from the “father of chemistry and the reformer of materia medica”, by the name Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, famously known as Paracelsus.He was a German-Swiss physician and alchemist who established the role of chemistry in medicine. He also published Der grossen Wundartzney (Great Surgery Book) in 1536 and a clinical description of syphilis in 1530.Paracelsus was the first to connect goitre with minerals, especially lead, in drinking water and also contributed substantially to the rise of modern medicine, including psychiatric treatment.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French physician by the name Philippe Pinel. Dr Philippe Pinel was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients. Philippe Pinel founded scientific psychiatry and ignored previous theories about mental illness, relying on his own observations to guide treatments.
This Quote of the Week comes from an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire by the name Edward Anthony Jenner. He was often called "the father of immunology" because of his pioneering in making the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. His work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other man".In Jenner’s time, smallpox killed around 10 percent of the population, with the number as high as 20 percent in towns and cities where infection spread more easily.
This Quote of the Week comes from a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame by the name Hermann Boerhaave. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636). Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) and is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions. He was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician to put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri: 'Simplicity is the sign of the truth'. He is often hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates"
This Quote of the Week comes from a German physician by the name Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann was the founder of Homoeopathy, a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. He is known as the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way. He gave medicine to healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.
This Quote of the Week comes from a German physician by the name Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann was the founder of Homoeopathy, a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. He is known as the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way. He gave medicine to healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French physician, surgeon and anatomist by the name Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne. He was Chief of l'hopital Saint-Antoine Paris, the Deputy Chief of Anatomical Works of the Faculté de Madeline de Paris (both part of the University of France). He was a member of the Société Anatomique de Paris and a Member of l'Academie de Medecine de Île-de-France as well being the personal physician of Louis XVIII and the surgeon of Charles X.Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne was the inventor of the disarticulated or exploded human skull used for medical teaching and known as the Beauchêne skull and incorrectly attributed to Claude Beauchene.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr Peter Mere Latham.He was a physician,"a great medical educator" and son to Dr. John Latham.Of Dr. Latham’s mode of teaching clinical medicine, he has left us a specimen in his admirable Lectures on Subjects connected with Clinical Medicine, 12mo. Lond. 183G, "the publication of which," says Sir Thomas Watson, "marked an era in the clinical teaching of this country"—of his mode of teaching the theory and the practice of medicine in his Lectures on Diseases of the Heart, 2 vols. 12mo. Lond. 1845.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French Internist by the name Armand Trousseau. His contributions to medicine include Trousseau sign of malignancy, Trousseau sign of latent tetany, Trousseau–Lallemand bodies (an archaic synonym for Bence Jones proteins). He is sometimes credited with the quip "use new drugs quickly, while they still work", though Michel-Philippe Bouvart had said the same over 40 years earlier.
This Quote of the Week comes from Claude Bernard who was a French physiologis and highly regarded as "one of the greatest of all men of science" by Bernard Cohen of Harvard University. He was known chiefly for his discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of the blood supply by the vasomotor nerves. Among many other accomplishments, he was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French physiologist by the name Claude Bernard. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of experimental medicine for his role in laying down the basic rules of experimentation in the life sciences. Dr. Bernard is also known for his discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of the blood supply by the vasomotor nerves. His most seminal contribution was his concept of the internal environment of the organism, which led to the present understanding of homeostasis.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French physiologist by the name Claude Bernard. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of experimental medicine for his role in laying down the basic rules of experimentation in the life sciences. Dr. Bernard is also known for his discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of the blood supply by the vasomotor nerves. His most seminal contribution was his concept of the internal environment of the organism, which led to the present understanding of homeostasis.
This Quote of the Week comes from a British physician by the name Elizabeth Blackwell. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social and moral reformer, and pioneered in promoting education for women in medicine. She championed the participation of women in the medical profession and ultimately opened her own medical college for women. Her contributions remain celebrated with the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, awarded annually to a woman who has made significant contribution to the promotion of women in medicine.
This Quote of the Week comes from a German doctor by the name Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow. He became known as "the father of modern pathology" because of his work to bring more science to medicine. He was a pathologist, a politician and he also described and named several diseases including Leukemia.
This Quote of the Week comes from a German doctor by the name Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow. He became known as "the father of modern pathology" because of his work to bring more science to medicine. He was a pathologist, a politician and he also described and named several diseases including Leukemia.He was also the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues he was known the "Pope of medicine".
This Quote of the Week comes from a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, Jean-Martin Charcot. He is referred to as "the father of French neurology and one of the world's pioneers of neurology". Charcot's work greatly influenced the developing fields of neurology and psychology and was the "foremost neurologist of late nineteenth-century France".
This Quote of the week comes from Lord Joseph Lister. Lister was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and successfully introduced carbolic acid to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds. At a young age, Lister had expressed his desire to be a surgeon and decided not just to practise medicine, but also to conduct research to improve medical knowledge and went on to develop new surgical techniques by applying his antiseptic principle. His remarkable accomplishments earned him the title “father of modern surgery” and in 1897, he was given the title Lord Lister of Lyme Regis.
This Quote of the week comes from Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founders of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. In 1879, he opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany, which was the first laboratory dedicated to psychology, and its opening is usually thought of as the beginning of modern psychology. Wundt was important because he separated psychology from philosophy by analyzing the workings of the mind in a more structured way, with the emphasis being on objective measurement and control.
This Quote of the week comes from German physician and microbiologist by the name Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch.He is regarding as the founder of modern bacteriology because of his work in identifying the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax. His work launched the field of medical bacteriology and gave experimental support for the concept of infectious disease which included experiments on humans and animals.His research led to the creation of Koch's postulates, a series of four generalized principles linking specific microorganisms to specific diseases that remain today the "gold standard" in medical microbiology.For his research on tuberculosis, Koch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905.
This Quote of the Week comes from Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Laveran found that the pathological pigments could also be found in the brain, spleen, and liver of patients who had died from malaria. His work was not immediately accepted and in 1884, he persuaded Pasteur and Emile Roux of the correctness of his views when a rare case of malignant malaria in a soldier in Paris gave him the opportunity to demonstrate the parasite. He donated half of his Nobel prize money to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute.
This Quote of the Week comes from Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Laveran found that the pathological pigments could also be found in the brain, spleen, and liver of patients who had died from malaria. His work was not immediately accepted and in 1884, he persuaded Pasteur and Emile Roux of the correctness of his views when a rare case of malignant malaria in a soldier in Paris gave him the opportunity to demonstrate the parasite. He donated half of his Nobel prize money to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute.
This Quote of the week comes from the Father of Modern Medicine,Sir William Osler.Known for his witticisms and philosophical maxims, his quotes were mostly based on knowing the patient.Taking a good history, observing signs and symptoms, and asking the patient the right questions.This approach has been very effective and continues to be the dominant approach today.
This Quote of the week comes from Sir William Osler, the Father of Modern Medicine.He was a great physician who performed medical experiments to help reduce uncertainity and increase the probabilty of diagnosis without completely removing the art of medical practice.
This Quote of the Week comes from one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope", Sir William Osler. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training.He was often described as the 'Father of Modern Medicine' and was one of the four founding professors of the famous Johns Hopkins Hospital.
This Quote of the Week comes from Sir William Osler,who was a dedicated and caring physician. His commitment and work ethic was greatly admired by both his students and colleagues.
This Quote of the week comes from Sir William Osler, "The Father of Modern Medicine".He was one of the founding professors of John Hopkins Hospital and was considered one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope".Known for being a practical joker, he came up with some memorable quotes as well.
This Quote of the Week comes from comes from one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope", Sir William Osler. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training.He was often described as the 'Father of Modern Medicine' and was one of the four founding professors of the famous Johns Hopkins Hospital.
This Quote of the week comes from Sir William Osler who created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr Thomas Morgan Rotch was the president of the American Pediatric Society and America's first full professor of pediatrics. He was an active advocate of the care of premature infants in the early years of the 20th century. He invented a unique incubator and his pioneer work contributed to the emergence of pediatrics as a specialty. His book, Pediatrics: the Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children, was first published in 1895, and was followed by several revised editions.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr. William James Mayo, one of the founders of the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic. He was trained since childhood by his physician father and he grew up to be an internationally acclaimed surgeon in his own right, specializing in abdomen, pelvis and kidney related diseases.
This Quote of the Week comes from William James Mayo who was a noted American physician and surgeon who was one of the founders of the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic.William became a specialist in abdomen, pelvis, and kidney surgery. During the First World War, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the army medical reserve, he served as chief adviser for the surgical services in the office of the surgeon general of the army.
This Quote of the Week comes from a German surgeon by the name August Karl Gustav Bier. He was the first to perform spinal anesthesia and intravenous regional anesthesia hence earning the nickname "Father of spinal anesthesia". As the father of spinal and intravenous regional neural blockade, Bier had a tremendous impact on surgery and anesthesia.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American physician by the name James Bryan Herrick. Dr. Herrick is credited with the description of sickle-cell disease and was one of the first physicians to describe the symptoms of myocardial infarction. He practiced and taught medicine in at various hospitals in Chicago, Illinois.
This Quote of the Week comes from an English American physician and health writer by the name Woods Hutchinson. He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1880 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later. Besides The Polyclinic, he edited Vis Medicatrix early in his career, (from 1890 to 1891). Hutchinson promoted the consumption of red meat and white bread and was strongly opposed to the ideas of vegetarianism.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer and draftsman by the name Harvey Williams Cushing. Cushing was a pioneer of brain surgery and was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He was given the title of the father of modern neurological surgery as he earned a worldwide reputation in this field, bringing about bold and novel surgical innovations in the field of medicine and surgery.
This Quote of the Week comes from Harvey Williams Cushing. He was given the title of the father of modern neurological surgery as he earned a worldwide reputation in this field, bringing about bold and novel surgical innovations in the field of medicine and surgery.
This Quote of the Week comes from an English surgeon by the name Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter. Trotter was a pioneer in neurosurgery and teacher of surgery.He is especially noted for his work on the regeneration of sensory nerves in the skin.
This Quote of the Week comes from an English surgeon and a pioneer in neurosurgery by the name Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter. Trotter held the office of honorary surgeon to King George V from 1928 to 1932 and is especially noted for his work on the regeneration of sensory nerves in the skin.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American pathologist by the name Warfield Theobald Longcope, was the twenty-second president of the American Association of Immunologists.Longcope served as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and also as president of the Association of American Physicians and American Society for Clinical Investigation. After completing medical school, Longcope took a position as the resident pathologist at Pennsylvania Hospital's Ayer Clinical Laboratory, working under the direction of Simon Flexner. By 1904, he was the laboratory director, a position he held until 1911. Between 1909 and 1911, he was also an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
This Quote of the Week comes from a French surgeon, Dr. Alexis Carrel who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.
This Quote of the Week comes from Nobel prize winner, French surgeon, Dr. Alexis Carrel. During the 1914-1919 War, Carrel served as a Major in the French Army Medical Corps and at this time he helped to devise the well-known Carrel-Dakin method of treating war wounds, which was widely used.
This Quote of the Week comes from a German-born American physician and author by the name Dr. Martin Henry Fischer. He is most famous for his teachings on the art and practice of medicine and also his numerous quotes, including the famed quotation often recited on the first day of medical school, "A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
This Quote of the Week comes from a German-born American physician and author by the name Dr. Martin Henry Fischer. He is most famous for his teachings on the art and practice of medicine and also his numerous quotes, including the famed quotation often recited on the first day of medical school, "A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
This Quote of the Week comes from a German-born American physician and author by the name Dr. Martin Henry Fischer. He is most famous for his teachings on the art and practice of medicine and also his numerous quotes, including the famed quotation often recited on the first day of medical school, "A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
This Quote of the Week comes from Sir Alexander Fleming. He was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist, best-known for his discoveries of the enzyme lysozyme and the world's first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G).He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for his work in discovering Penicillin G. Fleming was knighted in 1944 for his scientific achievements and in 1999, he was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy including original descriptions of lysozyme and penicillin.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American physician and cardiologist named Paul Dudley White who is widely acclaimed as the father of American cardiology.He is regarded as the founder of preventive cardiology and was a staunch advocate of the belief that lifestyle affected coronary artery disease.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr Edward Bach, the founder of The Bach Centre. In 1917, Dr Bach suffered a severe haemmorhage, after an operation to remove the tumour he was given a poor prognosis and only three months left to live. Bach returned to his laboratory and made it his mission to advance his work as far as he could in the short time he had.The three months came and went and found him in better health than ever. He was convinced that his sense of purpose was what saved him: he still had work to do.
This Quote of the Week comes from an English doctor by the name Edward Bach. Dr Bach is widely known for developing the Bach flower remedies, a form of alternative medicine inspired by classical homeopathic traditions. He was also a bacteriologist, homeopath, and spiritual writer.
This Quote of the Week comes from a prominent medical authority and former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Morris Fishbein. As editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Fishbein became the chief spokesman for the medical profession and championed the public's right to basic medical education.
This Quote of the Week comes from Sir Frederick Grant Banting.He was a Canadian scientist whose pioneering work using insulin to treat diabetes earned him the Nobel prize.Together with Charles H. Best, he was the first to extract the hormone insulin from the pancreas.
This quote comes from Canada's foremost neurosurgeons, Dr. Wilder Penfield. He is best known for the discovery of a surgical treatment for epilepsy, a brain disorder characterized by sudden and recurrent seizures. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus.
This quote comes from a British-Indian scientist known as John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. He was famously known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. He made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.His article on abiogenesis in 1929 introduced the "primordial soup theory", and it became the foundation to build physical models for the chemical origin of life
This Quote of the Week comes from a renowned hematologist Dr. Paul Reznikoff. He wrote widely on lead poisoning, hematologic diseases, medical care, and medical education among others.This research led to many publications, speeches and lectures.
This Quote of the week comes from a German born physiologist by the name Dr. Hubert Strughold. He was a prominent medical researcher and held a few series of high ranking medical positions in the US Airforce and NASA. For his role in pioneering the study of the physical and psychological effects of manned spaceflight he became known as "The Father of Space Medicine".
Our Quote of the Week comes from an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator by the name Charles Everett Koop. Koop was a pioneer in pediatric surgery, inventing many of the anesthetic and surgical techniques that are now used on neonates and infants.He served as the 13th Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989 and was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Our Quote of the Week comes from a Lebanese-American cardiovascular surgeon by the name Michael Ellis DeBakey. DeBakey was an educator, international medical statesman, and pioneer in surgical procedures for treatment of defects and diseases of the cardiovascular system. In 1932, DeBakey devised the “roller pump,” an essential component of the heart-lung machine that permitted open-heart surgery. He also developed an efficient method of correcting aortic aneurysms by grafting frozen blood vessels to replace diseased vessels. He became the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and senior attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston, with a career spanning 75 years.
Our Quote of the Week comes from an English physician by the name Ian Donald. He was most notable for pioneering the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics, that enabled the discovery of abnormalities in pregnancy. Donald was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow. Donald's work was characterised by a series of remarkable collaborations between clinicians and engineers that strove build instruments to enable examination of the unborn and that eventually enabled him to build the worlds first obstetric ultrasound machine, the Diasonograph in 1963.He later became known for opposing abortion and experiments on embryos. He campaigned against the 1967 Abortion Act, which he saw as an ‘attempt to eliminate an evil by substituting a different evil’.
This Quote of the Week comes from a British surgeon and medical researcher by the name Denis Parsons Burkitt. Dr Burkitt made significant advances in health, such as the etiology of a pediatric cancer, now called Burkitt's lymphoma. He demonstrated that Burkitt’s lymphoma commonly occurs only in mosquito-ridden parts of equatorial Africa, in regions where malaria and yellow fever are also endemic.His research also suggested that some insect vector was the carrier of an infectious agent responsible for the disease. Burkitt later helped develop an effective chemotherapy treatment for the lymphoma. Burkitt was also best known for his theory that a high-fibre diet helps protect against colorectal cancer and other diseases
This Quote of the Week comes from a British surgeon and medical researcher by the name Denis Parsons Burkitt. Dr Burkitt made significant advances in health, such as the etiology of a pediatric cancer, now called Burkitt's lymphoma. He demonstrated that Burkitt’s lymphoma commonly occurs only in mosquito-ridden parts of equatorial Africa, in regions where malaria and yellow fever are also endemic.His research also suggested that some insect vector was the carrier of an infectious agent responsible for the disease. Burkitt later helped develop an effective chemotherapy treatment for the lymphoma. Burkitt was also best known for his theory that a high-fibre diet helps protect against colorectal cancer and other diseases.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American medical researcher and virologist by the name Dr Jonas Edward Salk. Dr Salk discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.He believed that his vaccine, made of “killed” polio virus, could immunize the patient without risk of infection. He tested this vaccine on a few healthy volunteers who had not had polio, including himself, his family, and colleagues—all developed antipolio antibodies and had no negative reactions to the vaccine. After national testing on 1 million children, ages 6-9 years, known as the "Polio Pioneers," it was announced in 1955 that the vaccine was safe and effective.
Our Quote of the Week comes from a British physician and low-carbohydrate diet writer by the name Guy Richard Godfrey Mackarness. Richard Mackarness is best known for his book Eat Fat and Grow Slim, published in 1958. In his book, he exposed what he termed the "calorie fallacy" and proposed a low-carbohydrate "Stone Age" diet of fat and protein. He took influence from the ideas of William Banting. The book was a success and sold over 1.5 million copies. Mackarness left general practice to became an assistant psychiatrist at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke.
This Quote of the Week comes from John R. Lee, MD (1929-2003), an internationally recognised pioneer and expert in the study and use of the hormone progesterone and on the subject of hormone replacement therapy for women. After 30 years of family practice in Northern California, Lee began writing and traveling around the world giving plenary talks to doctors, scientists, and lay people about progesterone. Lee is the author of "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause".
This Quote of the Week comes from an American pathologist by the name Emanuel Rubin. Rubin is known for his contributions to the study of liver disease, cardiomyopathy and alcoholic tissue injury, and as the editor of Rubin’s Pathology, a medical textbook first published in 1988, now in its seventh edition.He obtained a B.S. degree from Villanova University in 1950, and an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1954. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1957. Subsequently, he trained in pathology at the Mount Sinai Hospital from 1958 to 1962. Rubin has authored numerous original contributions in the fields of liver disease, cardiomyopathy and alcoholic tissue injury. His work has been based on clinical studies of patients, volunteers and laboratory investigations of the effects of alcohol on cells and organs.
This Quote of the Week comes from Arlen Specter who was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. His quote is about reducing the cost of medical care by reducing the illness. If more effort is put in reducing the illnesses, this will reduce the need and demand for Medical Services.
This Quote of the week comes from Isaac Newton Skelton who was an American Politician, who believed Medical Research must be a nation's priority.If a country invests in medical research, this will help to prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.This will deliver better medical outcomes for its citizens.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American physician and author by the name Marcia Angell. She is the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1997, Time magazine named Marcia Angell one of the 25 most influential Americans for that year.
This Quote of the Week comes from the former Director-General of WHO,Dr Margaret Chan. Before joining WHO, Dr Chan was the Director of Health in Hong Kong. During her time as director in Hong Kong, She successfully defeated the spate of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2003. She also launched several services to prevent disease and promote better health.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr. Andrew Thomas Weil who is an American celebrity doctor,a physician, an author and also a spokesperson. He is broadly described as a guru of the alternative medical brands: holistic health and integrative medicine, whose name also constitutes an emerging brand of healthcare services and products in these fields.
This Quote of the week comes from an American epidemiologist by the name William Herbert Foege. He is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s" and he also "played a central role" in efforts that greatly increased immunization rates in developing countries in the 1980s. Foege authored House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox, a book on modern science, medicine, and public health over the smallpox disease.
This Quote of the week comes from a computer scientist and a nanotechnology theorist by the name Ralph Merkle.Merkle believed that Nanotechnology is the future of technology that can be used across all industries. In medicine, nanotechnology can be used to detect and treat diseases and repair damages to the human body at cellular level. For all this to be achieved, we need to investment immensely in nanotech.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr. Seth Berkley,the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. He is a medical epidemiologist by training and a global advocate on the power of vaccines.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American oncologist and bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Dr Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel. He is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and has written and edited 9 books and over 200 scientific articles.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American oncologist and bioethicist by the name Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel. He is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American oncologist and medical researcher by the name Samuel Broder. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1989 to 1995. During the first years of the AIDS epidemic, he co-developed zidovudine (AZT), didanosine (ddI), and zalcitabine (ddC), which were the first effective drugs licensed for the treatment of AIDS. In 1989, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be Director of the NCI. In this position he oversaw the development of a number of new therapies for cancer including paclitaxel (Taxol). After leaving the NCI, Dr. Broder became Senior Vice President for Research and Development at the IVAX Corporation in Florida, a position he held until 1998 when he joined Celera Genomics. He is now Chief Medical Officer of Celera. He has received a number of honors for his work including the Arthur S. Flemming Award and the Leopold Griffuel Award.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American physician and New York Times best-selling author, Mark Adam Hyman. He is the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center.
This Quote of the week comes from Dr. Bahija Jallal, she is the Chair of Board of Directors at Viela Bio, Inc.She was named the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Woman of the Year for 2017
This Quote of the Week comes from an American medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist by the name Laurel Blair Salton Clark.Clark died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
This Quote of the Week comes from an American medical anthropologist and physician by the name Paul Edward Farmer. Dr. Farmer is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Bronislaw Malinowski Award and the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology. He is co-founder and chief strategist of Partners in Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.
This Quote of the Week comes from Ben Goldacre. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and UCL University of London before becoming a practising psychiatrist in 2005. Apart from his clinical academic works, he is also noted as a science writer and broadcaster.
This Quote of the week comes from Dr Daniel Kraft who is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy, who is the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute for Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA). Dr. El-Gabalawy is also the Professor of Medicine and Immunology, senior clinician-scientist, Endowed Rheumatology Research Chair at the University of Manitoba, and former Section Head of Rheumatology and Arthritis Centre Director.
This Quote of the Week comes from Dr. Tedros Adhanom who started his healthcare career as a public health researcher and health ministry official. To date he has held two high-level positions in the government of Ethiopia: Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016. Since 2017 Dr. Tedros has served as Director-General of the World Health Organization as the first non-physician and first African in the role, an appointment endorsed by the African Union.