Medical Quotes - Page 35

• I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.

  Ron Paul

  Marijuana, Law, California

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

  Ron Paul

  People, Needs, Care

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

  Thomas Szasz

  Practice, Agents, Illness

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.167, Syracuse University Press

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• For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Book, Play

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Real, Medicine

  "Tales and Novels". Book by Maria Edgeworth, vol. 14, p. 245, 1843.

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• I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Marijuana, Law, Doctors

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• The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

  Evan Esar

  Running, Book, Men

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• Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Doctors, Evil, Imagination

  The Prophecy of Famine (1763)

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• Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

  Richard Carmona

  Boss, What If, Just Being

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

  Richard Carmona

  Smart, Believe, School

  "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

  Richard Carmona

  Moving, Cells, Suffering

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• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Decision, Advice, Want

  "The Kevorkian Verdict". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. May 14, 1996.

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• Sandeep Jauhar specializes in peeling back the veneer, revealing the discomfiting truths of today’s medical world. He is unafraid to dig deeply and honestly, both within himself and within the medical profession. Doctored raises critical questions that twenty-first-century medicine must answer if it is to meet the needs of its patients as well as of its practitioners.

  Danielle Ofri

  World, Today, Patient

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• You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.

  Mark Skousen

  Party, Grandchildren, Government

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• If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

  Ben Goldacre

  Years, Use, Trials

  "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors, People, Roles

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• If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Skills, Important

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• Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

  John Leo

  School, Government, World

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• A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Scare, Study

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• We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Believe, Mean, Light

  "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, pp. 3-4, 1984.

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• Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

  Plutarch

  Pain, Grief, Treatment

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• The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

  Robert Owen

  Medicine, Mind, Body

  "The Book of the New Moral World". Book by Robert Owen, Part 3, 1845.

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• Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Book, Doctors

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.714, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.

  Mordecai Richler

  Yesterday, Waiting, Today

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• I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.

  Abraham J. Twerski

  Lying, Addiction, Doe

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