285 private quotes tagged medical

“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

“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”— P. G. Wodehouse

“When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.”— William Westmoreland

“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.”— Robert Atkins

“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

“The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.”— Tim Berners Lee

“A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.”— Tina Fey

“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.”— Edward Bach

“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”— Stephen Harper

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”— Ovid

“I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.”— Stanislav Grof

“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”— Norman Cousins

“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

“I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.”— Zach Braff

“Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.”— Andrew Weil

“Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.”— Barbara Boxer

“I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.”— Dianne Feinstein

“When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.”— Warwick Davis

“Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.”— Julie Bishop

“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.”— Malcolm Fraser

“The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.”— Pauline Hanson

“Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.”— Jan Schakowsky

“America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.”— Mike Ferguson

“However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.”— Tim Murphy

“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”— Ivan Illich