Michael Specter Quotes
I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Specter
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The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.
Raghuram Rajan
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
J. G. Ballard
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The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
Magic Johnson
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Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
S. Jay Olshansky
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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
Barton Gellman
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
Patch Adams
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When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
Chris Adrian
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
Ethan Canin
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I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. But now that I'm deeply in, as a watcher of content, what a brilliant business model. As a consumer, it's empowering to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. I have three small children, so I need that flexibility, in order to really get into a show. And being on a Netflix show, it's perfect timing. I feel so grateful.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
Zooey Deschanel
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I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Specter