Medical Quotes - Page 36

• With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Military, Reading, Intelligent

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.90, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

  Martin Ryle

  Real, Heart, Engineering

  Letter to Professor Carlos Chagas, February 24, 1983.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records.

  Paul Ryan

  Should Have, People, Cards

  "Ryan Coauthors Electronic Medical Records Bill to Reduce Medical Errors, Lower Health Care Costs". paulryan.house.gov. July 12, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.

  George Sarton

  Wise, Physicians, Too Much

  George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

  Erik Naggum

  Book, People, Association

  "Is LISP dying?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. July 15, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Writing, School

  4 Copy quote

• We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.

  Robert A. Burton

  Doctors, Ideas, Differences

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.164, Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Bridges, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  97 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

  Linus Torvalds

  Forever, Pieces, Research

  "13744 supplied". Linus' blog, torvalds-family.blogspot.com. August 3, 2010.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Numbers, People, Needs

  "Kong Carl". Book by Jan Ove Ekeberg, Jan Arild Snoen, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.

  Philippe Kahn

  Labs, Sugar, Cubes

  Founding speech for "Fullpower" technology company, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Mother, Impact, Practice

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Cutting

  16 Copy quote

• The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

  Norman Cousins

  Thinking, People, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.

  James Bovard

  Alzheimer's, Long, People

  16 Copy quote

• Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

  Lesley Nicol

  Dog, Ambassadors, Detection

  4 Copy quote

• ... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Doctors, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Doctors, Psychological

  5 Copy quote

• Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.

  Gabor Mate

  Breakup, Pain, Stress

  68 Copy quote

• I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

  David Gest

  Men, People, Gone

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

  Milt Gross

  Golf, Men, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Giving Up, Exercise, Golf

  17 Copy quote

• I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business.

  Meryl Streep

  Moving, School, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, Thinking, Modern

  Debate at Washington University, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source