Medical Quotes - Page 31

• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Fundamentals, Medical Science, Disease

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• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  Tama Janowitz

  Country, Children, Bad Day

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• If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

  Pat Buchanan

  Media, Revolution, Rebellious

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• That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

  Chester Brown

  One Direction, Medicine, Culture

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

  Danica McKellar

  May, Surprise, Natural

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Doctors, World, Care

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.

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• Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

  Max Brooks

  Sleep, Night, Government

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• Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

  Paul Berg

  Cells, Research, Today

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• I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

  Sydney Brenner

  School, Might Use, Trying

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• One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

  C. L. Wilson

  Dark, Age, Authority

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• I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!

  David Agus

  Believe, Years, Goal

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

  Gary Coleman

  Intelligent, Black, Four

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• Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Quality, Reform, Care

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• Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

  Melvin Konner

  Dream, Doctors, Training

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• I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

  Peter Diamandis

  School, Trying, Company

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, School, Doctors

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• As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

  Jim Gerlach

  School, Doctors, Reform

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• The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

  Marc Garneau

  Communication, Space, Ties

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• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

  Peter Agre

  School, Epidemics, Asia

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• Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  School, Graduates, Posts

  "Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief" by Betsy McCaughey, www.wsj.com. August 27, 2009.

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• Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Technology, Physicians

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• Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

  Richard Conniff

  Nature, Medical Knowledge, Naturalist

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• To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.

  Karl Evang

  Country, Health, Care

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Medicine

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