Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
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After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues,… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
“The aggressive use of new medical tools went beyond castration. Dr. Marion Sims discovered a condition called “vaginismus,” in which a woman… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and… — Vernon Coleman Copy Share Image
“this information has resurfaced in the past two decades, the fight against the status quo has been heating up again. A few… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine…If you don't do this, one of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“A large part of the task is helping people negotiate the overwhelming anxiety—anxiety about death, anxiety about suffering, anxiety about loved ones,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
“Chlamydia, today´s most common cause of venereal disease, does the equivalent of hiding in the police station. Schistosomes of the mansoni type… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Listen, if I can manage it, I'll try to swing home this afternoon for a bit. To—I don't know—help you out or… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike many other illnesses, what I find profoundly empowering about addressing loneliness is that the ultimate solution to loneliness lies in each… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“According to a recent report drafted by thirty-nine physicians from the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and endorsed by some… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system,… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
“We EDS patients are accustomed to being doctors’ first cases of something in virtually every medical specialty. We’re just as used to… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
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“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
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