Medicine Quotes
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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.
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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.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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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.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
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Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.
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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.
