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• Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

  Joan Aiken

  Teaching, Healing, Mean

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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• Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Views, World

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.5, St. Martin's Press

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• Behold the Sea,
  The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
  Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
  Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
  Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
  Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
  Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
  And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
  Giving a hint of that which changes not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Sweet, Strong

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.241, Delphi Classics

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• Ready mony is a ready Medicine.

  George Herbert

  Ready

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.366

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• I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Believe, Political, Hiv

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• To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Extensions

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• I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

  Zubin Mehta

  Doctors, Live By, University

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• When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Needs, Culture

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• Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

  Dean Koontz

  Long, Essentials, Overdose

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.352, Bantam

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• For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

  William Harvey

  Blood, Doe, Circuits

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• Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

  Martin Seligman

  Sports, People, Psychology

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• Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Art, Community, Mind

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• I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Regret, Privileged

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• I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Fashion, Able, Boundaries

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

  Luc Besson

  Cinema, Aspirin, Saved

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, Thinking, Individual

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• I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

  Amish Tripathi

  School, Mba, Engineering

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• If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

  Anne Hull

  Giving, Labyrinth, Sugar

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• I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.

  Michael Dell

  Hydration, Blood, Data

  Source: www.businessinsider.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

  Hands, Play, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But there is no such man; for, brother, men
  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
  Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
  Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Brother, Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

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• The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely
  on weapons or brute force to succeed

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Sick, Doe

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• Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.

  Stacy Schiff

  Husband, Divorce, Rights

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