Medical Science Quotes

“Medical Science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.”
― Aldous Huxley

“72000 nadis are the areas where modern medical science can learn a lot from the ancient science of yoga and Ayurveda.”
― Amit Ray, 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation

“Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy man left.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The information age has taken away the most useful function of the aged, children no longer connect with them for wisdom.
What for then, the longer life?

20 Oct 2020 World Statistics Day”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Celebrities Ain't Health Experts (The Sonnet)

Celebrities and influencers are not health experts,
Stop taking medical advice from halfwits of wellness.
Stop being a two-bit doctor from ten minutes of googling,
For Google is not a substitute for doctors and nurses.
Compared to that of a trained and experienced doctor,
Even as a neurobiologist my diagnosis skills are insignifant.
Then why can't you accept that when it comes to medicine,
Your opinion is worth no more than a counterfeit coin.
One goes through years of training and many sleepless nights,
Then they earn the right to wear the white coat of service.
And yet upon spending an hour surfing on the internet,
You put on the personality of a grey-haired neurologist!
Lack of expertise is by no means the same as lack of dignity.
But denial of expertise indicates a definite lack of senility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Stop being a two-bit doctor from ten minutes of googling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Health and Sickness (The Sonnet)

Health doesn't always come from pills,
Health comes through being mindful.
Pills just help bring down the barriers,
That clutter the body with deadly ghoul.
Wellness is not the absence of sickness,
It's the capacity to overcome sickness.
Some sickness are the norm of nature,
Others are products of our own foolishness.
The opposite of sickness is not its absence,
The opposite of sickness is its awareness.
To treat sickness we must first acknowledge it,
Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.
In the end, health favors those who favor humility.
Sustainability favors those who favor simplicity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Self-diagnosis is a modern day healthcare crisis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Sonnet of Self-Diagnosis

Superstition is the opium of the ill-informed public,
Conspiracy is the opium of the over-informed public.
With ten minutes of googling every flipping flat-earther
feels and behaves like a reputable rocket scientist.

Human mind has a prehistoric predisposition of paranoia,
To counteract ignorance mind cooks up brilliant fantasies.
Thus scientific expertise succumbs to facebook expertise,
Facebook groups become authority on medical diagnosis.

Self-diagnosis is a modern day healthcare crisis,
Where the patient desperately tries to redeem control.
In trying to oust the experts from science and medicine,
Google certified society only heralds its own funeral.

Take people out of healthcare, and healthcare is dead.
Take doctors out of healthcare, and healthcare is damage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Healthcare means aid first, rules later.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“To control disease is called treatment,
To be aware of health is called wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Medical science victimizes humans to treat humans.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Body cannot survive in the vacuum of space,
Mind cannot survive in the vacuum of time.
Brain cannot survive in the vacuum of skull,
So it floats about in the fluid of spine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Medicine means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics, or it can mean Mechanical, Egotistical, Dehumanizing, Indifferent, Cold, Insensitive, Nincompoop Elitist. You decide what you practice, and your decision will determine what you are - a doctor or a butcher!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)

We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don't bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.

Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.

We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.

Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Since then neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment. The first, our autobiographical self, creates connections among experiences and assembles them into a coherent story. This system is rooted in language. Our narratives change with the telling, as our perspective changes and as we incorporate new input.”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

“Such changes are called "switching" in clinical practice, and we see them often in individuals with trauma histories. Patients activate distinctly different emotional and physiological states as they move from one topic to another. Switching manifests not only as remarkably different vocal patterns but also in different facial expressions and body movements. Some patients even appear to change their personal identity, from timid to forceful and aggressive or from anxiously compliant to starkly seductive. When they write about their deepest fears, their handwriting often becomes more childlike and primitive”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

“There is no question traumatized people have irrational thoughts: "I was to blame for being so sexy." "The other guys weren't afraid - they're real men." "I should have known better than to walk down that street." It's best to treat those thoughts as cognitive flashbacks - you don't argue with them any more than you would argue with someone who keeps having visual flashbacks of a terrible accident. They are residues of traumatic incidents: thoughts they were thinking when, or shortly after, the traumas occurred that are reactivated under stressful conditions. A better way to treat them is with EMDR....”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

“In contrast to phobias (such as a spider phobia, which is based on a specific irrational fear", posttraumatic stress is the result of a fundamental reorganization of the central nervous system based on having experienced an actual threat of annihilation, (or seeing someone else being annihilated). which reorganizes self-experience (as helpless) and the interpretation of reality (the entire world is a dangerous place).”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

“Research had already shown that sleep, and dream sleep in particular, plays a major role in mood regulation. As the article in "Dreaming" pointed out, the eyes move rapidly back and forth in REM sleep, just as they do in EMDR. Increasing our time in REM sleep reduces depression, while the less REM sleep we get, the more likely we are to become depressed......Today we know that both deep sleep and REM sleep play important roles in how memories change over time. The sleeping brain reshapes memory by increasing the imprint of emotionally relevant information while helping irrelevant material fade away. In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

“If, as a therapist, teacher, or mentor, you try to fill the holes of early deprivation, you come up against the fact that you are the wrong person, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma