Medical Quotes - Page 39

• When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

  Katherine Boo

  Drama, Stories, Bigs

  "Katherine Boo: Slum dweller" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 1012.

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• The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

  Paul Merson

  Oxygen, Bigs, Rounds

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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

  Bill Gross

  Jobs, Writing, Political

  "Strawberry Fields - Forever?" by William H. "Bill" Gross, www.pimco.com. December 2012.

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• FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Fda, Important, Routine

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• All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Humanity, Understanding

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

  Peter Shilton

  Bars, Mars, Causes

  Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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• The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

  Rebecca Skloot

  Thinking, Giving, Use

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• The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

  Jaron Lanier

  New York, Cancer, Robots

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• A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

  Charles Jencks

  Hate, Medical Profession, Teeth

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• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Military, War, School

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• Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Art, Anatomy And Physiology, Training

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• I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

  Bernie Siegel

  School, Doctors, Healthy

  "Why We Become Doctors" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Medicine

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.18

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• Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Doctors, Beauty And Love, Long

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.33, Prometheus Books

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• The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Artist, Doctors

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• Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

  Michael Porter

  Moving, Balls, Ping Pong

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• I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

  Michael Porter

  School, Government, Boundaries

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• A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Citizens, Revolution

  Acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 15 July (1960)

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• ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Pride, Men

  Middlemarch Ch. 21

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• I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, People, Atheism

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• I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Technology, People

  "A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

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• My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Children, School

  "A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

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• Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

  Maya Tiwari

  Medicine, Balance, Needs

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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