285 private quotes tagged medical

“As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.” — Nathan Deal

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“I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.” — Ty Cobb

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“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” — Alice James

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“Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.” — David Jones

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“I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.” — Ron Paul

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“The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.” — Samora Machel

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“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.” — Andrew Weil

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“My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.” — Natalie Portman

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“I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.” — Terry Pratchett

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“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.” — Abe Lemons

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“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.” — Margaret Sanger

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“Time is generally the best doctor.” — Ovid

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“Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.” — Venus Williams

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“Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.” — Paul Farmer

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“But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?” — Tony Campolo

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“Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.” — Thomas Frank

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“I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.” — Benjamin Carson

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“The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.” — Arlen Specter

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“If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.” — Ralph Merkle

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“It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.” — John Sununu

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“There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.” — Ashley Montagu

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“There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.” — Nicholas D. Kristof

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“I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.” — Marilu Henner

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“The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.” — Jack Kevorkian

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