Medical Quotes
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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 want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
