| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| William Osler | The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.  | 101 |
| Greg Grandin | Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system. | 101 |
| Ike Skelton | Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. | 101 |
| Vikram Patel | The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger. | 101 |
| Zoe Saldana | Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. | 101 |
| Abe Lemons | Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. | 101 |
| Brendan Iribe | You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app. | 101 |
| Gerhard Domagk | The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years. | 101 |
| Jack Dee | If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all. | 101 |
| Kelly McCreary | It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about. | 101 |
| Neal Asher | If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying. | 101 |
| Pat Mitchell | TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making. | 101 |
| Peter Agre | Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. | 101 |
| Robert Atkins | 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. | 101 |
| Seth Berkley | For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities. | 101 |
| Sun Yat-sen | I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study. | 101 |
| Bruce Vento | We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today. | 101 |
| Kelsey Chow | My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in her medical school class at a time when it was extremely rare for women to attend medical school, she worked with the World Health Organization in North Africa to eradicate tuberculosis. | 101 |
| Ralph Merkle | If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life. | 101 |
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively. | 101 |
| Sandra Fluke | I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. | 101 |
| Sue Kelly | The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care. | 101 |
| Timothy Murphy | The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. | 101 |
| Anita Baker | Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. | 101 |
| Barry Marshall | In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to. | 101 |
| Ben Goldacre | If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. | 101 |
| Grete Waitz | In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally. | 101 |
| Lauren Worsham | I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients. | 101 |
| Margaret Geller | Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss. | 101 |
| Pat Cadigan | I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles. | 101 |
| Aditi Shankardass | When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands. | 101 |
| Dave deBronkart | Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start? | 101 |
| Leonard Alfred George Strong | I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. | 101 |
| Paul Lauterbur | By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive! | 101 |
| Sheri Fink | Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short. | 101 |
| Sydney Brenner | In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions. | 101 |
| Tansy Rayner Roberts | One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives. | 101 |
| Bonnie Somerville | Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us. | 101 |
| Caitlin Kittredge | I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there. | 101 |
| Charlotte Ross | Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game. | 101 |
| Marc Garneau | The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. | 101 |
| Mary Stuart Masterson | The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school. | 101 |
| Rebecca Skloot | The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.' | 101 |
| David Bolinsky | Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school. | 101 |
| Jami Gertz | The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time. | 101 |
| John Doolittle | Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. | 101 |
| Cass Canfield | Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. | 101 |
| John Backus | They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think. | 101 |
| Samuel Hahnemann | The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. | 101 |
| Susan Lim | It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology. | 101 |
| Mike Ferguson | America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. | 101 |
| Anthony Principi | Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. | 101 |
| Michael Hogan | Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing. | 101 |
| Michael Palmer | You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. | 101 |
| John Paul Stevens | To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment? | 101 |
| Bill Hicks | If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. | 102 |
| Eric Ries | Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance. | 102 |
| Khaled Hosseini | 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. | 102 |
| Leroy Hood | Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness. | 102 |
| Patti Davis | My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. | 102 |
| Peter Singer | In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally. | 102 |
| Tina Fey | 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. | 102 |
| Eric Topol | The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down. | 102 |
| James D. Watson | Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA. | 102 |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong | I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient. | 102 |
| Patrick Swayze | I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. | 102 |
| W. Daniel Hillis | Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do. | 102 |
| Dean Ornish | Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness. | 102 |
| Haldan Keffer Hartline | Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits. | 102 |
| Robert Urich | Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. | 102 |
| Stanislav Grof | 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. | 102 |
| Walter Matthau | My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. | 102 |
| William Henry Danforth | St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine. | 102 |
| Barry Marshall | In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms. | 102 |
| Diane Ladd | For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large. | 102 |
| Edwin Way Teale | For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. | 102 |
| Evan Sayet | Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school. | 102 |
| Ken Calvert | The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them. | 102 |
| Laurent Lamothe | Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful. | 102 |
| Peter Lewis Allen | Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. | 102 |
| Steven Hatfill | I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. | 102 |
| Thomas Sydenham | The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. | 102 |
| Anthony Edwards | Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. | 102 |
| Gerald Griffin | I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67. | 102 |
| George Emil Palade | In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine. | 102 |
| John Cameron | When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. | 102 |
| Phil Roe | When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar. | 102 |
| Rachel Brosnahan | It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family. | 102 |
| Robert Jarvik | I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs. | 102 |
| Sydney Brenner | I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code. | 102 |
| Barbara Hambly | I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible. | 102 |
| David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville | Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits. | 102 |
| Devdutt Pattanaik | Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? | 102 |
| Doug Ose | Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals. | 102 |
| Morag Joss | My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. | 102 |
| Jill Greenberg | The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment. | 102 |
| James A. Winnefeld, Jr. | I think for the wounded, ill and injured warriors, they need the best possible care that we can give them - a continuum of care that not only started on the battlefield and extended all the way to the wonderful medical facilities that we have here in the United States - but beyond. | 102 |
| Jacob Hacker | Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. | 102 |
| Erma Bombeck | Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. | 103 |
| Ashley Montagu | One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. | 103 |
| Frances Farmer | If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. | 103 |
| Hilary Mantel | Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness. | 103 |
| Zeljko Ivanek | The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. | 103 |
| Abe Lemons | You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.' | 103 |
| Christiaan Barnard | I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. | 103 |
| David Axelrod | No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs. | 103 |
| Doug Ducey | Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an environment that keeps medical students in Arizona to practice medicine once they complete medical school and their residency programs. | 103 |
| Nathan Deal | As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive. | 103 |
| Sally Mann | At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients. | 103 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. | 103 |
| William Scranton | Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. | 103 |
| Edward Bach | 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. | 103 |
| Lois Capps | Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health. | 103 |
| Melissa Bean | During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. | 103 |
| Sendhil Mullainathan | Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally. | 103 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere. | 103 |
| Barry Marshall | Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood. | 103 |
| Ben Quayle | I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down. | 103 |
| Eva Vertes | I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience. | 103 |
| Ken Wilber | I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska. | 103 |
| Morgan Fairchild | Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.' | 103 |
| Ren Ng | I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics. | 103 |
| Ted Strickland | Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values. | 103 |
| Tulsi Gabbard | I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader. | 103 |
| Ann McLane Kuster | My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most. | 103 |
| Baruj Benacerraf | While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented. | 103 |
| Les Aspin | We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help. | 103 |
| Michael Steele | We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo. | 103 |
| Sean Berdy | Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect. | 103 |
| Martin Fleischmann | It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward. | 103 |
| Mary Stuart Masterson | Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. | 103 |
| Samora Machel | 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. | 103 |
| David M. Brown | As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying. | 103 |
| Donald Sadoway | In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery. | 103 |
| James Rothman | I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory. | 103 |
| Jeff Raikes | When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition. | 103 |
| John Hutton | For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially. | 103 |
| Margaret Hamburg | I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family. | 103 |
| Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. | 103 |
| James H. Boren | I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. | 103 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. | 104 |
| Ezekiel Emanuel | Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. | 104 |
| Henny Youngman | I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. | 104 |
| Jack Kevorkian | As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. | 104 |
| Naomi Judd | For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit. | 104 |
| John Ensign | Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue. | 104 |
| Neal Barnard | In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. | 104 |
| Tess Gerritsen | I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England. | 104 |
| Abraham Verghese | Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well. | 104 |
| Ami Bera | Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. | 104 |
| David Gerrold | In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. | 104 |
| Martti Ahtisaari | The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher. | 104 |
| Ralph Merkle | 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. | 104 |
| S. Jay Olshansky | I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. | 104 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. | 104 |
| Tama Janowitz | On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No. | 104 |
| Tipper Gore | Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. | 104 |
| Alex Chiu | Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people. | 104 |
| Enid Bagnold | When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. | 104 |
| Ernest Lawrence | In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. | 104 |
| Robert Jay Lifton | But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. | 104 |
| Tamar Braxton | I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose. | 104 |
| Baruj Benacerraf | My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena. | 104 |
| Dizzy Dean | The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing. | 104 |
| Tabare Vazquez | Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. | 104 |
| Cesar Milstein | As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School. | 104 |
| Craig Mello | What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy. | 104 |
| Richard Reeves | After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records. | 104 |
| Ciara Bravo | I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before. | 104 |
| Severo Ochoa | I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine. | 104 |
| Jerry Brown | 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. | 104 |
| Mike Pence | To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles. | 105 |
| Elizabeth Kenny | I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed. | 105 |
| Lewis Thomas | Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. | 105 |
| Michael Porter | I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries. | 105 |
| Owain Yeoman | I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!' | 105 |
| Potter Stewart | Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. | 105 |
| Venus Williams | 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. | 105 |
| Chuck Zito | I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill. | 105 |
| Katherine Dunn | Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. | 105 |
| Lincoln Chafee | Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. | 105 |
| Maria Shriver | No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect. | 105 |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. | 105 |
| Sam Kean | Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder. | 105 |
| Warwick Davis | 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. | 105 |
| Alice Dreger | When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus. | 105 |
| Peter Shilton | When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar. | 105 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed. | 105 |
| Tom G. Palmer | Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. | 105 |
| Ariel Garten | Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field. | 105 |
| Gerald F. Lieberman | There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. | 105 |
| Kenneth Joseph Arrow | In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved. | 105 |
| Selman Waksman | In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics. | 105 |
| Baruj Benacerraf | In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows. | 105 |
| Derek Theler | I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too. | 105 |
| Jan Schakowsky | 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. | 105 |
| Jim Cooper | If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy. | 105 |
| Alice James | One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. | 105 |
| John Leo | Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. | 105 |
| Anton Chekhov | Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. | 106 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. | 106 |
| Barbara Mikulski | A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm. | 106 |
| Dianne Feinstein | Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. | 106 |
| Edward Everett Hale | In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. | 106 |
| Ivan Illich | 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. | 106 |
| Leonard Boswell | I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad. | 106 |
| Nicole Kidman | 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. | 106 |
| Norman Cousins | The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. | 106 |
| Oliver Cromwell | Nature can do more than physicians. | 106 |
| Paloma Faith | I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body. | 106 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 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. | 106 |
| Bill Flores | Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options. | 106 |
| Charles Jencks | A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. | 106 |
| Dennis Quaid | In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. | 106 |
| Bill Nelson | Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care. | 106 |
| David Agus | I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist! | 106 |
| Gunter Blobel | Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it. | 106 |
| Jim Lee | The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for. | 106 |
| Nayef Al-Rodhan | Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment. | 106 |
| Albert Claude | When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. | 106 |
| Alex Chiu | Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site. | 106 |
| Alice Hamilton | Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. | 106 |
| Chris Toumazou | For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters. | 106 |
| Gertrude B. Elion | I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them. | 106 |
| Peter Lewis Allen | Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? | 106 |
| Robin Tunney | After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like. | 106 |
| Ben Wheatley | The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas. | 106 |
| Jim Gerlach | Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses. | 106 |
| John Cameron | The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. | 106 |
| Jon Porter | With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed. | 106 |
| Robert Jarvik | I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease. | 106 |
| Sam Simon | I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. | 106 |
| Jaime Camil | The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment. | 106 |
| Arthur Kornberg | The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered. | 106 |
| Jermaine Jackson | Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area. | 106 |
| John Vane | After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes. | 106 |
| Barbara Boxer | We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American. | 107 |
| Eric Schmidt | I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. | 107 |
| Ezekiel Emanuel | Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness. | 107 |
| Greg Anderson | Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever. | 107 |
| Irwin Redlener | Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues. | 107 |
| John Madden | You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain. | 107 |
| Malcolm Gladwell | You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies. | 107 |
| Nina Easton | Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties. | 107 |
| Steven Pressfield | Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you. | 107 |
| Andrew Lansley | The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to. | 107 |
| Bill Frist | 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. | 107 |
| Daniel Nathans | And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. | 107 |
| Hamilton Jordan | I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it. | 107 |
| Aimee Mullins | At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. | 107 |
| Ami Bera | I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school. | 107 |
| Katherine Parkinson | When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage. | 107 |
| Richard Preston | We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb. | 107 |
| Cote de Pablo | I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called 'Diagnosis: Unknown.' | 107 |
| Goodluck Jonathan | Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that. | 107 |
| Christopher Shays | Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it. | 107 |
| John Cameron | I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. | 107 |
| Shaffi Mather | The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment. | 107 |
| Julie Bishop | Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances. | 107 |
| Jonathan Kellerman | I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need. | 107 |
| Marcel Proust | It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. | 108 |
| Swami Sivananda | Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'. | 108 |
| Dianne Feinstein | 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. | 108 |
| Paul Farmer | I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. | 108 |
| Vikram Patel | I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews. | 108 |
| William Westmoreland | When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. | 108 |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist. | 108 |
| Ron Chernow | 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. | 108 |
| Richard Dooling | And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. | 108 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government. | 108 |
| Alice Hamilton | When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. | 108 |
| Ben Goldacre | Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm. | 108 |
| Richard Reeves | Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. | 108 |
| John Eccles | I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain. | 108 |
| Jose Serrano | The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. | 108 |
| Ashley Montagu | 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. | 109 |
| George Eastman | It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood. | 109 |
| Saint Basil | Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall. | 109 |
| Abbie Hoffman | Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. | 109 |
| Cesar Romero | I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead. | 109 |
| Danica McKellar | I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck. | 109 |
| Harold E. Varmus | I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all. | 109 |
| Hosea Ballou | Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. | 109 |
| Mehmet Oz | As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. | 109 |
| Sandra Tsing Loh | The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help. | 109 |
| Tamala Jones | I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.' | 109 |
| Abraham Verghese | What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism. | 109 |
| Chris Van Hollen | Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. | 109 |
| Ernest Thompson Seton | Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice. | 109 |
| John Barrasso | As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care. | 109 |
| Karolyn Grimes | With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City. | 109 |
| Lindsay Duncan | My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive. | 109 |
| Lois Capps | And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records. | 109 |
| Ada Yonath | My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me. | 109 |
| Shinya Yamanaka | I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before. | 109 |
| Tom Catena | My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school. | 109 |
| Dale Archer | I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there. | 109 |
| John Quelch | Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking. | 109 |
| Robert Jarvik | As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts. | 109 |
| Samuel Wilson | I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting. | 109 |
| Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi | We are glad to tie up with a humanitarian organization, which is being promoted by Prince Abdul Aziz. This partnership will greatly help in assisting needy renal-failure patients by supplying them equipment, medicines and other medical supplies, while encouraging and supporting scientific research. | 109 |
| John Eccles | A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research. | 109 |
| Atul Gawande | Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them. | 110 |
| Dan Brown | For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. | 110 |
| Henny Youngman | When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. | 110 |
| Paul Farmer | 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. | 110 |
| Earl Wilson | You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. | 110 |
| Eula Biss | I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle. | 110 |
| Harold E. Varmus | Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. | 110 |
| Kathryn Stockett | When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils. | 110 |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. | 110 |
| Nathan Deal | Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on. | 110 |
| Pardis Sabeti | I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family. | 110 |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong | We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind. | 110 |
| Teri Garr | I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. | 110 |
| Tess Gerritsen | I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don't have a serial killer as a mother! | 110 |
| Betty Hill | Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. | 110 |
| Margaret Sanger | 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. | 110 |
| Paul Berg | Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. | 110 |
| Tim Walberg | My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan. | 110 |
| Ada Yonath | After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. | 110 |
| Chris Toumazou | Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary. | 110 |
| Koo Stark | I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK. | 110 |
| Brande Roderick | That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care. | 110 |
| Jim Gerlach | Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. | 110 |
| John Cameron | Medical physics is an applied area of physics. | 110 |
| Robert Jarvik | The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health. | 110 |
| Samuel Wilson | I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable. | 110 |
| Malcolm Fraser | 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. | 110 |
| Mary Stuart Masterson | I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. | 110 |
| Jack Irons | 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. | 110 |
| Groucho Marx | A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. | 111 |
| Brad Henry | No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. | 111 |
| Hans Rosling | My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me. | 111 |
| Ramakrishna | The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians. | 111 |
| Daniel Nathans | So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. | 111 |
| Miguel Syjuco | I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet. | 111 |
| Peter Shaffer | Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. | 111 |
| Erik Paulsen | The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support. | 111 |
| Lucille Roybal-Allard | Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. | 111 |
| John Templeton | Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did. | 111 |
| Tim Murphy | However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance. | 111 |
| Jane Leavy | The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. | 111 |
| John Cameron | Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized. | 111 |
| Robert Jarvik | I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. | 111 |
| Samuel Wilson | I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices. | 111 |
| Hippocrates | Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. | 112 |
| Olivia Newton-John | When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant. | 112 |
| Chris Christie | A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. | 112 |
| Eric Topol | When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. | 112 |
| Harmon Killebrew | The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world. | 112 |
| Nathan Kress | I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people. | 112 |
| Sylvia Mathews Burwell | Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season. | 112 |
| William Banting | My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. | 112 |
| Bob McDonnell | Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. | 112 |
| John Glenn | The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless. | 112 |
| Paz de la Huerta | I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow. | 112 |
| Stephen Ambrose | It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly. | 112 |
| Lennart Nilsson | I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know. | 112 |
| John Cameron | Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties. | 112 |
| Martin H. Fischer | In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. | 112 |
| Michael Landon | You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. | 112 |
| Richard J. Roberts | Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer. | 112 |
| Joe Baca | Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. | 112 |
| John Eccles | I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?' | 112 |
| William Osler | It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. | 113 |
| Che Guevara | I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics. | 113 |
| Denis Diderot | The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. | 113 |
| David Suzuki | 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. | 113 |
| Paul Gosar | We have a lot of things, you know, as a medical professional, we have to start looking at, some of the, particularly, the transgender issue has to be looked at in the psychotic - the psychosis in regards to the medical community and looking at that application because there's a lot of mixed studies in those regards. | 113 |
| Steve Gleason | To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical. | 113 |
| Zach Braff | I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives. | 113 |
| Garry Trudeau | Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room? | 113 |
| Gary Coleman | I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. | 113 |
| Karen Duffy | In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers. | 113 |
| Karen Finerman | I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center. | 113 |
| Alana Stewart | I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover. | 113 |
| Edward M. Lerner | The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do. | 113 |
| Mark Udall | Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks. | 113 |
| Sarah Hyland | When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand. | 113 |
| Cote de Pablo | I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. | 113 |
| Ellen Gilchrist | I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor. | 113 |
| Ryan White | Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. | 113 |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform. | 113 |
| Spencer Bachus | Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. | 113 |
| John Cameron | I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. | 113 |
| Robert Jarvik | I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor. | 113 |
| Alvin E. Roth | My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools. | 113 |
| Jesse Williams | I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest. | 113 |
| Chesley Sullenberger | Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation. | 114 |
| Francis Collins | I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents. | 114 |
| Rita Rudner | I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. | 114 |
| Samuel Butler | 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. | 114 |
| Harold E. Varmus | In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate. | 114 |
| Jay London | I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who? | 114 |
| Neve McIntosh | I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it. | 114 |
| Paul Stamets | The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research. | 114 |
| David Mixner | Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. | 114 |
| Edwin Moses | I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship. | 114 |
| Jochen Zeitz | I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business. | 114 |
| Sue Kelly | As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. | 114 |
| Carl Levin | Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. | 114 |
| Greg Mortenson | My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school. | 114 |
| Taylor Wilson | I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer. | 114 |
| Sheri Fink | Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones. | 114 |
| Don Miguel Ruiz | I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am. | 115 |
| Nancy Gibbs | The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs. | 115 |
| Paul Hawken | It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude. | 115 |
| Evelyn Lauder | My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena. | 115 |
| Katherine Boo | When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work. | 115 |
| Mariella Frostrup | When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child. | 115 |
| Richard Lamm | Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. | 115 |
| Robert Englund | As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger. | 115 |
| Emily Greene Balch | Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. | 115 |
| Marilyn Hacker | My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. | 115 |
| Richard Carmona | I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award. | 115 |
| Amanda Palmer | I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom. | 115 |
| Jeffrey Tate | I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it. | 115 |
| Julie Bishop | 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. | 115 |
| Hippocrates | Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. | 116 |
| Bill Nye | Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10. | 116 |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication. | 116 |
| Leroy Hood | All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer. | 116 |
| Nawal El Saadawi | I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped. | 116 |
| Nicolas Cage | I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. | 116 |
| Thomas Frank | Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen. | 116 |
| Ty Cobb | I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. | 116 |
| Henry Spencer | In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did. | 116 |
| Ralph Merkle | Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. | 116 |
| Thomas R. Insel | Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. | 116 |
| Luke Perry | Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems. | 116 |
| Robert Jarvik | I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science. | 116 |
| Sheri Fink | It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers. | 116 |
| Lewis Thomas | The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. | 117 |
| Andrew Weil | 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. | 117 |
| Gabrielle Giffords | Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to. | 117 |
| George Pataki | We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents. | 117 |
| MaryJanice Davidson | I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference. | 117 |
| Rory Bremner | When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such. | 117 |
| Dirk Benedict | I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy. | 117 |
| Gary Wolf | The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. | 117 |
| Marie Osmond | There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom. | 117 |
| Melissa Etheridge | There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine. | 117 |
| Richard Carmona | The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered. | 117 |
| Timothy Murphy | If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do? | 117 |
| Barry Marshall | The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas. | 117 |
| Chester Brown | That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find. | 117 |
| Samuel Wilson | I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. | 117 |
| Michael Kinsley | The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. | 117 |
| Isaac Asimov | All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. | 118 |
| David Bohm | Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. | 118 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | A hospital is no place to be sick. | 118 |
| Eric Topol | We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession. | 118 |
| George Pataki | If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. | 118 |
| Michael Greger | Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year. | 118 |
| Nana Mouskouri | For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. | 118 |
| Linda M. Godwin | There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well. | 118 |
| Roberto Duran | If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather. | 118 |
| Steve Buyer | It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities. | 118 |
| Joel Madden | I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything. | 118 |
| Aaron Ciechanover | I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship. | 118 |
| Stephen LaBerge | It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being. | 118 |
| Jim Cooper | Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives? | 118 |
| Jeff Merkley | We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis. | 118 |
| Edmund Hillary | I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. | 119 |
| Jack Kevorkian | 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. | 119 |
| Marlo Thomas | Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. | 119 |
| Paul Farmer | Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. | 119 |
| Pauline Hanson | 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. | 119 |
| Eula Biss | One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients. | 119 |
| Jenny McCarthy | 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. | 119 |
| Max Brooks | Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. | 119 |
| Barbara Boxer | Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. | 120 |
| Dave Reichert | Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us. | 120 |
| Eric Kandel | I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian. | 120 |
| Iris Chang | The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. | 120 |
| Malcolm Gladwell | I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care. | 120 |
| Mike Birbiglia | You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless. | 120 |
| Cobi Jones | As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career. | 120 |
| Joe Jamail | For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research. | 120 |
| John Fleming | Uninsured care happens in this country, and here's the problem. It's not properly accounted for. The people who pay for uninsured care at the moment are the hospitals and the doctors and all of the medical providers. | 120 |
| Timothy Murphy | The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure. | 120 |
| Roger Wicker | It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. | 120 |
| Wendell Berry | Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. | 121 |
| Shinzo Abe | Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease outbreaks was made clear with the Ebola virus. | 121 |
| Justine Bateman | I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all. | 121 |
| Atul Gawande | No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not. | 122 |
| Jennifer Aniston | Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. | 122 |
| Li Keqiang | The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life. | 122 |
| Norman Cousins | It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. | 122 |
| P. G. Wodehouse | It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. | 122 |
| Zach Wamp | 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. | 122 |
| Busy Philipps | It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know? | 122 |
| Chris Ware | I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. | 122 |
| Claire McCaskill | Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. | 122 |
| Eli Wallach | I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945. | 122 |
| H. G. Bissinger | There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. | 122 |
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself. | 122 |
| Voltaire | The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. | 123 |
| Edmund Hillary | My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. | 123 |
| Jimmy Fallon | Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?' | 123 |
| Otto Schily | Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. | 123 |
| Steven Van Zandt | C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts. | 123 |
| Eric Topol | I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible. | 123 |
| Taylor Hicks | I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children. | 123 |
| Debbie Stabenow | Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance. | 123 |
| Richard Carmona | We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering. | 123 |
| Taslima Nasrin | I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate. | 123 |
| Montel Williams | I'm involved in everything from a nutraceutical company to a pharmaceutical company to a medical device company. My whole world revolves around health, and I feel it's my responsibility, in a way, and I say it this way, and I don't take this lightly. | 123 |
| Anton Chekhov | Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. | 124 |
| Arlen Specter | The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. | 124 |
| Eric Kandel | The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas. | 124 |
| Jack Kevorkian | The patient decides when it's best to go. | 124 |
| Leroy Hood | What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that. | 124 |
| Michael Specter | Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history. | 124 |
| Natalie Portman | 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. | 124 |
| Nawal El Saadawi | You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. | 124 |
| Wendy Davis | Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control. | 124 |
| Colin Firth | My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. | 124 |
| Eric Topol | Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything. | 124 |
| Marilu Henner | 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. | 124 |
| Richard Lamm | We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none. | 124 |
| D. B. Sweeney | To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff. | 124 |
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems. | 124 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. | 124 |
| Toni Braxton | I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter. | 124 |
| Alex Chiu | Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price. | 124 |
| John Cameron | I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. | 124 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. | 125 |
| Marcel Proust | Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. | 125 |
| Khaled Hosseini | I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. | 125 |
| Eric Topol | Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate. | 125 |
| Nell Newman | It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it. | 125 |
| Laurel Clark | The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland. | 125 |
| John Cameron | There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958. | 125 |
| Anne Wojcicki | Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities. | 126 |
| Bill Gross | Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs. | 126 |
| Charlie Pierce | School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons. | 126 |
| Philip Emeagwali | Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS. | 126 |
| Tom Allen | I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. | 126 |
| Ernest Istook | We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. | 126 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria. | 126 |
| Mimi Kennedy | For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits. | 126 |
| Jennifer McMahon | My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. | 126 |
| Atul Gawande | Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me. | 201 |
| Mary Roach | My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles. | 201 |
| John Sununu | 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. | 201 |
| Jon Huntsman, Jr. | In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system. | 201 |
| Larry Niven | I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. | 201 |
| Mark Skousen | You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise. | 201 |
| Anne Wojcicki | FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care. | 202 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. | 202 |
| Francis Collins | I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist. | 202 |
| George M. Church | I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find. | 202 |
| Jon Kabat-Zinn | Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline. | 202 |
| Lewis Thomas | 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. | 202 |
| Paul Farmer | It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. | 202 |
| Tess Gerritsen | My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me. | 202 |
| Abraham Verghese | Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. | 202 |
| Alice Dreger | A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together. | 202 |
| Jane Leavy | Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters. | 202 |
| Marion Marechal-Le Pen | French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home. | 203 |
| Abraham Verghese | I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage. | 203 |
| Joel Fuhrman | In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care? | 203 |
| William Osler | To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. | 204 |
| Kevin Kwan | I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession. | 204 |
| Monica Crowley | For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments. | 204 |
| Stella Young | Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. | 204 |
| Dean Ornish | I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them. | 204 |
| Jay Samit | Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience. | 204 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well. | 204 |
| Clayton Christensen | A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established. | 205 |
| Eric Kandel | When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. | 205 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. | 205 |
| Sebastian Junger | I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business. | 205 |
| David Gest | I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment. | 205 |
| Richard Carmona | Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer? | 205 |
| Marcel Proust | Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. | 206 |
| Jack Kevorkian | I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. | 206 |
| Jonathan Kozol | So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable. | 206 |
| Peter Diamandis | As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth. | 206 |
| James Surowiecki | Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product. | 206 |
| Lesley Nicol | I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs. | 206 |
| Atul Gawande | People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money. | 207 |
| Fred Wilson | We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration. | 207 |
| Mariella Frostrup | There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption. | 207 |
| Pardis Sabeti | I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all. | 207 |
| Anupam Kher | You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most. | 207 |
| Michelle Malkin | 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? | 207 |
| Isaac Asimov | If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. | 208 |
| Jack Welch | 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. | 208 |
| Craig Venter | Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. | 208 |
| Reese Witherspoon | I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself. | 208 |
| Stella Young | I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant. | 208 |
| David Souter | There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. | 208 |
| Margaret Heffernan | The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist. | 208 |
| Jeff Fortenberry | Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure. | 208 |
| Michael Hastings | You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. | 208 |
| Indra Nooyi | The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do. | 209 |
| Michael Porter | Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. | 210 |
| Stephen Harper | 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. | 210 |
| Plato | They certainly give very strange names to diseases. | 211 |
| Mitch Kapor | A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem. | 211 |
| Richard Lamm | I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all. | 211 |
| Ben Carson | We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. | 212 |
| Hugh Laurie | I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with. | 212 |
| Scott Kelly | This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth. | 212 |
| Julie Burchill | Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise. | 212 |
| Michael J. Fox | Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. | 213 |
| Aretha Franklin | I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion. | 213 |
| Gina Raimondo | I'll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs... We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work. | 213 |
| Abraham Verghese | We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine. | 213 |
| Max Heindel | To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments. | 213 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 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. | 214 |
| Robert Winston | My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time. | 214 |
| Sarah Brightman | As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the Russian space federation having passed the necessary medical and physical tests. | 214 |
| Barton Gellman | Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. | 215 |
| Tess Gerritsen | I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school. | 215 |
| Joe Jamail | Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college. | 215 |
| Liya Kebede | Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa. | 216 |
| Jesse Eisenberg | If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting. | 216 |
| John Glenn | Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day. | 216 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. | 217 |
| Scott Kelly | I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that. | 217 |
| Richard Preston | Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a fatal infection. This may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn't remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them. | 217 |
| Peter Singer | In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it. | 218 |
| Taylor Caldwell | I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. | 218 |
| Anthony Browne | After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess. | 218 |
| Richard Lamm | Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies. | 218 |
| Richard Preston | If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what's known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. In this technique, medical workers simply vaccinate everybody in a ring, miles deep, around a focus of a virus. | 218 |
| Bernie Siegel | I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors. | 219 |
| Elizabeth Warren | There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. | 219 |
| Levon Helm | You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different. | 219 |
| Temple Grandin | Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. | 219 |
| Sarah Shahi | I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin. | 219 |
| Robert Harris | Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there. | 219 |
| Chris Squire | It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary. | 220 |
| Alice Dreger | Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous. | 220 |
| Jochen Zeitz | I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well! | 220 |
| Joel Fuhrman | We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty. | 220 |
| Barry Ritholtz | There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way. | 221 |
| Nora Ephron | I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. | 221 |
| Scott Kelly | What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background. | 221 |
| Don Lemon | I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills. | 221 |
| Erma Bombeck | Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. | 222 |
| Eric Schmidt | I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring. | 222 |
| Geoff Mulgan | Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason. | 222 |
| Harold Ramis | I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form. | 222 |
| Tom Cotton | Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions. | 222 |
| Maggie Hassan | I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions. | 222 |
| Saint Augustine | The greatest evil is physical pain. | 223 |
| Maajid Nawaz | I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college. | 223 |
| Audrey Hepburn | I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II. | 224 |
| Juan Williams | The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly. | 224 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. | 225 |
| Ron Paul | 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. | 225 |
| Andrew Weil | 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. | 225 |
| S. Jay Olshansky | The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself. | 225 |
| Michael Caine | Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. | 226 |
| Nancy Reagan | Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things. | 301 |
| Randi Weingarten | I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers. | 301 |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee | There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous. | 301 |
| Nick Harkaway | At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. | 302 |
| Tess Gerritsen | I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be. | 303 |
| Scott Kelly | People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out. | 304 |
| Virginia Postrel | Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered. | 304 |
| Tess Gerritsen | Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two. | 304 |
| Sam Harris | It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. | 305 |
| Zubin Mehta | My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father. | 306 |
| Samuel Butler | Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. | 307 |
| Marcus Luttrell | The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man. | 307 |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee | A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias. | 308 |
| Ronald Reagan | 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. | 309 |
| Tony Campolo | 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? | 309 |
| Erin O'Connor | The model sanctuary was borne of a complex, political, societal debate. It was proposed to us from various bodies that we give models medicals once a year, and if they didn't pass that medical, there's a chance they'd legally lose their right to work. | 309 |
| Groucho Marx | I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. | 310 |
| Rob Lowe | I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria. | 310 |
| Muhammad Yunus | The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh. | 311 |
| Rand Paul | The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example. | 312 |
| James Nesbitt | People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain. | 312 |
| Bernie Sanders | We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge. | 313 |
| John Delaney | One of the key issues all veterans face is making the transition to a civilian career, and for veterans who need extra medical attention, this can be even more difficult. | 313 |
| Chuck Schumer | I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. | 314 |
| John Delaney | While many employers do the right thing and provide flexible schedules for disabled veterans, I felt that it was important to provide all disabled veterans with a solution that would help them have access to medical leave. Here's how our bill works: we accelerate the eligibility process for disabled veterans. | 314 |
| Ben Carson | 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. | 315 |
| Ben Carson | The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to. | 316 |
| Patti Smith | My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled. | 317 |
| Anthony Fauci | I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine. | 317 |
| Cate Blanchett | When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!' | 319 |
| Barton Gellman | Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants. | 320 |
| Jonathan Kozol | 'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. | 320 |
| Joel Fuhrman | Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods. | 321 |
| Terry Pratchett | 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. | 322 |
| Elizabeth Warren | Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those. | 324 |
| Hugo Chavez | I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion. | 324 |
| Khloe Kardashian | I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold. | 325 |
| Kevin McCarthy | We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do. | 326 |
| Magic Johnson | No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives. | 326 |
| Thomas Frank | 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. | 326 |
| Tom Brokaw | There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins. | 326 |
| Anne Wojcicki | The paternalism of the medical industry is insane. | 402 |
| Ovid | Time is generally the best doctor. | 402 |
| Virginia Postrel | In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage. | 402 |
| Deepak Chopra | I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people. | 406 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. | 406 |
| Steve Jobs | 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. | 407 |
| Rick Scott | If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills. | 410 |
| Ben Carson | 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. | 413 |
| Martha Beck | People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. | 413 |
| Deepak Chopra | 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? | 415 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard? | 416 |
| Peter Diamandis | I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. | 417 |
| Craig Venter | Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them. | 418 |
| Edmund White | I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island. | 418 |
| Timothy Noah | If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. | 419 |
| John Delaney | I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school. | 419 |
| Nancy Gibbs | Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others? | 421 |
| Jerry Della Femina | At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing. | 421 |
| Tyra Banks | My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant. | 422 |
| Sylvester Stallone | Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications. | 423 |
| Jerry Hall | My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take. | 423 |
| Virginia Postrel | The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models. | 425 |
| Mark Twain | The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. | 504 |
| Olivia Wilde | You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care. | 505 |
| Ovid | Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. | 505 |
| Robert Dallek | John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis. | 506 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries. | 507 |
| Barack Obama | We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. | 508 |
| Virginia Postrel | The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress. | 508 |
| Bernie Sanders | In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network. | 510 |
| Joel Osteen | A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine. | 510 |
| Paul Theroux | Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine. | 514 |
| Robert Reich | Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. | 514 |
| Anne Wojcicki | It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy. | 516 |
| Bernie Sanders | Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs. | 521 |
| Terry Pratchett | It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. | 521 |
| Robert Dallek | Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency. | 521 |
| Charles Duhigg | Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud. | 603 |
| Rush Limbaugh | 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. | 612 |
| Donald Trump | We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them. | 622 |
| Bill Gates | In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear. | 705 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections. | 717 |
| Michael Moore | The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. | 1007 |
| Marco Rubio | One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills. | 1008 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. | 1123 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease. | 1418 |
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