Medical Quotes - Page 14

• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Mistake, Errors, Punishment

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• Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Long, Gone

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• It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

  Steve Buyer

  America, Community, Excellence

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• The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Examination, Trends, Study

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

  Gore Vidal

  Age, Care, Sometimes

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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• The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Autism, Doe

  "How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results". www.scientificamerican.com. August 01, 2008.

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• There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Anger, Doe, Elements

  "Nicholas Kristof: The Crisis of Our Times". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 28, 2005.

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• Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Practice, Years, Assault

  "Magical menopause: Relief and remedies for the symptoms of menopause". Book by Monica Troughton, January 24, 2007.

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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Role Models

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

  George Pataki

  New York, World, Entitled

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• Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all of us, every last person, either blossom or wither. We each have need of food, clothing, education, medical care, and companionship; but first, we must have a place to live and grow.

  Millard Fuller

  Home, Needs, Earth

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• They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

  John Backus

  School, Thinking, Want

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• The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

  Roger Williams

  Health, Heal Itself, Medicine

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• We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

  Les Aspin

  Mean, Water, Rebel

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• If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Laughter, Healing, Health

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• I don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting.

  Helen Joseph

  Beautiful, Faith, White

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• My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

  Greg Mortenson

  Christian, Mother, Father

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

  Fred Thompson

  Law, Wade, Medical Science

  "Did NBC Misrepresent Thompson as Being Opposed to Overturning Roe?" by Mark Finkelstein, www.newsbusters.org. March 12, 2007.

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• What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and the end of begging for medical care.  Everyone will be cared for and educated.  There will be no taxation, and no advantage group.  No technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism.  If that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, People, Groups

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• In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

  Paul Farmer

  Technology, Discovery, Humanity

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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• The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Cutting, Doctors, Average

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Benefits, Tangible

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• It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

  Roger Wicker

  Government, Research, Breakthrough

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