Medical Quotes - Page 34

• Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.

  Ralph Neas

  Taken, Law, Phones

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• While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.

  Robert Tisserand

  Doctors, Aromatherapy, United States

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• I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

  Samuel Wilson

  School, Medicine, University

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• There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.

  Dean Stockwell

  Thinking, Political, Environmental

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Thinking, Physicians

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• A clean and well-cared for appearance should be maintained. Hair styles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles. Mens' hair should be trimmed above the collar, leaving the ears uncovered. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed. Earrings for men are unacceptable, and beards are not acceptable, except for certified medical reasons.

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Hair, Leaving

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Bridges, Focus, Library

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• It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

  William Osler

  Brother, Dark, Age

  Sir William Osler (1932). “Aequanimitas”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Mean, School

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

  David Bolinsky

  Art, School, Illustration

  "Lives of a cell, the 3-D version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 1007.

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• Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.

  Charlie Crist

  Organization, Boards, Purpose

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• I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

  Samuel Wilson

  Physicians, Records, Partnership

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• I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

  Samuel Wilson

  Impact, Practice, Information

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• The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

  George Lakoff

  Research, Disease, Individualism

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• Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

  Gary Zukav

  Flower, Long, Care

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from May 06, 2015

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• At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

  Cecile Richards

  Impact, Doctors, Law

  "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cutting, Thinking, Doctors

  "Deadly Doctors" by Betsy McCaughey, nypost.com. July 24, 2009.

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• To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

  Steve Gleason

  Believe, Technology, Reality

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• Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

  Kevin R. Stone

  Records, Nightmare, Ends

  "Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?" by Kevin R. Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Heart, Two, Able

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.84, Penguin

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• A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, School, Simple

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• In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Survival, Quality

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• We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

  Jimmy Carter

  Japan, West Germany, Skills

  Remarks at 100th Anniversary Banquet of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles, Cal., 4 May 1978

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• I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

  Dick Cheney

  Medical Bills, Sick, Care

  "Dick Cheney reflects on how medical care kept him active despite heart disease". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2013.

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