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  • Garry Trudeau on medical

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    “Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?” -Garry Trudeau

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  • Marilyn Hacker on medical

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    “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.” -Marilyn Hacker

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  • Potter Stewart on medical

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    “Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.” -Potter Stewart

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  • David Bohm on medical

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    “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…

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  • Nicholas D. Kristof on medical

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

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  • David Axelrod on medical

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    “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…

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  • Busy Philipps on medical

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    “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?” -Busy Philipps

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  • Jack Dee on medical

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    “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…

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  • Philip Emeagwali on medical

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    “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.” -Philip Emeagwali

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  • Malcolm Fraser on medical

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

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  • Julie Bishop on medical

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

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  • Eric Ries on medical

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    “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.” -Eric Ries

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  • Mike Pence on medical

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    “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.” -Mike Pence

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  • Dianne Feinstein on medical

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

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  • Jon Huntsman, Jr. on medical

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    “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.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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  • Joe Baca on medical

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    “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.” -Joe Baca

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  • Marlo Thomas on medical

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    “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.” -Marlo Thomas

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  • Tim Berners-Lee on medical

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

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  • Dirk Benedict on medical

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    “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.” -Dirk Benedict

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  • P. G. Wodehouse on medical

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

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  • Nancy Reagan on medical

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    “Remember, I’m a doctor’s daughter. So obviously I’m interested in all medical things.” -Nancy Reagan

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  • Paul Farmer on medical

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    “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.” -Paul Farmer

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  • Barbara Boxer on medical

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    “We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • Debbie Stabenow on medical

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    “Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.” -Debbie Stabenow

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  • Ron Chernow on medical

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    “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.” -Ron Chernow

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