Medical Quotes - Page 28

• I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will always be some indeterminism ... in all the sciences, and more in medicine than in any other. But man's intellectual conquest consists in lessening and driving back indeterminism in proportion as he gains ground for determinism by the help of the experimental method.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

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• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  Larry Niven

  Moon, Technique, Want

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.

  Paul Stamets

  Cancer, Unique, Opportunity

  "Turkey Tail Mushrooms Help Immune System Fight Cancer" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

  E. Cheraskin

  Health, Medicine, People

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Confused, Fighting, Winning

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.

  Vicki Donlan

  Tired, Men, Law

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions: what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records?

  Jon Stewart

  Years, People, Records

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• I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Military, Kuwait, Two

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• Regardless of whether we are required to purchase medical insurance, know that we can only buy real health insurance in the produce section of the local supermarket.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Real, Medical Insurance, Produce

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• Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Two, Birth, Newspapers

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• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  Sam Simon

  Animal, Want, Experiments

  "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

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• If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

  Peter Medawar

  Get Better, Medical Science, May

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• A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca.

  Chris Kilham

  Men, Numbers, Dysfunction

  Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.160, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

  Atul Gawande

  Winning, Dollars, Tickets

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.92, Metropolitan Books

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• I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

  Atul Gawande

  School, Mortality, Medical School

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.7, Metropolitan Books

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• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

  Elyn Saks

  Numbers, Community, Faces

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• A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

  Brigid Brophy

  Pain, Animal, May

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• Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

  John Ashcroft

  Brother, Communication, Hands

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• I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Medical Insurance, Reform

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Talking, Automation

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.

  Justin Bieber

  Country, Baby, Home

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

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• I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

  Robert Jarvik

  Running, Heart, Exercise

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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.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Comfort, Stories

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• When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

  Jeff Raikes

  Children, School, Saving Up

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• Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

  Dennis Peron

  Patient, Cannabis, Knows

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