Medicine Quotes - Page 39

• But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

  Paul Farmer

  Simple, Justice, Sick

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• The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Different Ideas, Doctors

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• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  Barney Frank

  Marijuana, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Doctors

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• My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

  Teri Garr

  Doctors, Want, Helping

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• Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

  Atul Gawande

  Modern, Expertise, Mantras

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right”, p.29, Macmillan

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• I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

  Billy Graham

  Taken, Incredibles, Lifetime

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• Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

  Jay Griffiths

  Ocean, Blue, Whales

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  Salma Hayek

  Baby, Grandmother, People

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• In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

  Christopher Hitchens

  World, Brutes

  "Mortality". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Long, Desire

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• I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Thinking, Hiv

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Profound, Today, Illness

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• The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

  Stephen Leacock

  Book, Reading, Class

  1913 Behind the Beyond,'Homer and Humbug'.

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• Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Giving, Nineteen

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• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  Maimonides

  Philosophy, Distance, Soma

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  Walter Matthau

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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• I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Wall, School

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

  Maria Montessori

  Philosophy, Mean, Giving

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• I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Documentaries, Serious

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Choices, Way

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Perception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

  Mehmet Oz

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