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Barry Marshall

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[Wikipedia] Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in c

Quotes by 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…

High school

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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding…

Bleeding

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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by…

Age

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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other…

Food

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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out…

Find

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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold…

Australia

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It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix…

Could

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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

Causing

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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million…

Animals

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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor…

Funny

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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Medical

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You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I…

Always

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The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response…

American

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I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades…

Grades

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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

Country

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My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II…

Books

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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.

Everything

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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became…

Life

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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe…

America

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