Best Prescribing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“A good doctor should not avoid performing surgery or prescribing a bitter pill if it is in the interest of the patient. Similarly, a wise person must not avoid taking unpleasant and difficult decisions, if they are in the interest of the people and the organisation.”

Interest Wise Patient Surgery Prescribing Unpleasant

Book:31 Ways to Happiness

Source: 31 Ways to Happiness

“I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.”

These Days Medication Apps Prescribing

Author:Eric Topol

“Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.”

Problem Asking Solve Sociologists Diarrhea Prescribing

Author:Saul Alinsky

“regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication.”

Kind Products Safety Method Productions Fraud Regulation Prevention Fabrication Public Safety Prescribing

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.”

Thinking Men Should Writing Mind Lord Atheism Assuming Positive Atheism Treasure Prescribing

Author:George W Truett

“The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.”

Christian Religious Sin Christianity Bible Cancer Cures Diagnosis Prescribing

Author:Ray Comfort

“I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.”

Thinking Way Should Writing Different Artist Sides Subjects Definitions Powerless Emperor Prescribing

Author:Chinua Achebe

“What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.”

Art Philosophy Philosophical Philosopher Cures Burned Shells Physicians Tedious Oysters Profundity Prescribing

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.”

People Knows Should Firsts Looks Government Steps Identity Unions First Steps Totalitarianism European Union Prescribing

Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

“Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing how people grieve. I am just saying it's painful, it's not your fault and it's so common. Well if it's so common - let's talk about it and open a dialogue where people know what to say to you.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Mean Felt Common Events Needed Faults Painful Horrible Dialogue Grieving Like Something Just Saying Prescribing

Author:Laura Benanti

“Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance.”

Actors Process Focus Discipline Creating Unique Performances Mood Supposed To Be Naturalist Intentionality Prescribing

Author:Sam Pressman

“I have always been very interested in the issue of drugs, because as much as illegal drugs are prosecuted, if you think of it as a health issue, the real killer are prescription drugs, like over prescribing of opioids.”

Ifs Thinking Real Issues Drug Illegal Killers Prescriptions Prescription Drugs Health Issues Illegal Drugs Opioids Prescribing

Author:Pedro Reyes

“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.”

Feels Asks Rooms Class Medicine Patient Going Away Physicians Poorest Prescribing

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.”

Dream Bigs Sides Differences Common Effects Honest Drug Doctors Being Honest Vivid Exaggerated Side Effects Parkinson Prescribing Vivid Dreams

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.”

Want Doe Growth Economic Disease Treats Environmental Cures Treatment Physicians Unlimited Degradation Malady Environmental Degradation Prescribing Dosage

Author:Herman E. Daly

“Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.”

Done Helping Action Levels Existence Break Function Theoretical Alarms Reconcile Suggesting Prescribing

Book:Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

Source: Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”

Self Esteem Equality Appearance Myth Behaviour Fashion Industry Prescribing Beauty Myth

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.”

People Hard Easy Effort Materials Hard Work Needed Aim Nonsense Right Time Sufi Wisdom Hardy Prescribing Easy Work

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.”

Easy Views Plans Emotional Drug Depression Concern Impact Including Lifestyle Factors Developing Wellness Addresses Treatment Substitutes Totality Antidepressants Prescribing

Author:Andrew Weil

“My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.”

Has Beens Done Science Left Nature Natural Opinion Drug Medicine Patient Harm Convinced Saved Physicians Prescribing

Author:Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

“Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.”

Hard Felt Leadership Impossible Needed Concepts Absence Paradox Evident Describing Elusive Paradoxical Prescribing Lack Of Leadership Elusiveness

Author:Patrick Dodson

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.”

Body Life Is Company Comfort Ill Hip Hop Illness Boxes Rap Medical Your Body Cures Chocolate Pills Life Is Like Realness Toxins Penicillin Prescribing Box Of Chocolates

Author:Termanology

“The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Trying Attitude Illusion Intelligent Assumption Adopted New Yorkers Suitable Tolerable Prescribing

Book:The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture

Source: The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture

“In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.”

Government Economic Doctors Treatment Modesty Ailments Prescribing

Author:Kim Campbell

“Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions”

Years States Lasts Nations Results Taken Duty League Initiative Last Year Provision Assembly Sanctions Clauses Scandinavians Scandinavia Prescribing

Author:Hjalmar Branting

“If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.”

Ifs States Shows United United States Subjects Duty Fit Taxes Direct Property Congress Determine Limitation Proportion Occupation Contracts Reviews Uniforms Census Prescribing

Author:Salmon P. Chase

“Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.”

Age Law Church Members Elders Prescribing

Author:William Brewster

“The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.”

Nations Fire Cost Drug Rising Prescriptions Rehabilitation Prairie Prescription Drugs Prescribing

Author:Tim Pawlenty