285 private quotes tagged medical

“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.” — Plato

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“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.” — Cass Canfield

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“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?” — Deepak Chopra

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“When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.” — Samuel Butler

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“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.” — Ronald Reagan

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“The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.” — Mark Twain

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“What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.” — Jack Welch

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“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.” — Steve Jobs

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“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.” — Samuel Butler

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“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.” — Denis Diderot

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“The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.” — David Suzuki

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“I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.” — Jack Irons

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“Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.” — Thomas Frank

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“President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?” — Michelle Malkin

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“Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.” — Jerry Brown

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“The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.” — Ron Chernow

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“Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.” — Nicole Kidman

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“Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.” — Zach Wamp

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