Medical Quotes - Page 38

• Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.

  Lisa Belkin

  Country, Medicine, Miracle

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• I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, School, College

  Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Desire, Novelists, United States

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• Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Spiritual, Political, World

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• In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

  Francois Magendie

  Simple, Play, Physicians

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• My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

  J. G. Ballard

  Nursing, Race, Doors

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

  Aimee Mullins

  Glasses, Age, Hips

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

  Wendy Davis

  Real, Cancer, Advice

  "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.

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• I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Way, Paint, Procedures

  "Exclusive Interview: Paz De La Huerta on Beauty, Acting, and Her Infamous Cameos". Interview with Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

  Aretha Franklin

  Feels, Discussion, Conditions

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• Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and Id love to bring those interests to a show like E.R. or The West Wing, or a movie like Jurassic Park.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Kids, Dust, Wings

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• I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Scientist, Practicals

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyerak, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

  Cote de Pablo

  Discovery, Diagnosis, Shows

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• Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Training, Symbiosis, Life Is

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• We need to have our medical records put on the IT.

  George W. Bush

  Needs, Records, Medical Records

  George W. Bush Discusses Medical Liability Reform, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 5, 2005.

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• In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

  David Gerrold

  Moon, Technology, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Negative Experiences

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• We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Sleep, Elderly

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

  Tamar Braxton

  Noses, Done, Pieces

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• No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

  Atul Gawande

  School, Thinking, Patient

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• Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

  Thomas Carper

  Needs, Records, Hurricanes

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• So unless we form some kind of adequate relationship to death, we're never going to live properly, and if we think of it purely as a medical thing, we have reduced life. We should think of it as some sort of mystery which we can participate in now, not something to be pushed off to one side till the last moments.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Adequate, Lasts

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

  John Oliver

  Doctors, Degrees, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.

  Tom Waits

  Medicine, Hands, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

  Eric Kandel

  Senior, School, Years

  "A Nobel Prize with help from sea slugs". Interview with Edythe McNamee and Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2013.

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