medical

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘medical’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Sometime they don’t let you know that they know that they don’t know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.” -Guy Burgess

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  • “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.”…

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  • “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…

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  • “To make a coverage decision, doesn’t one have to make a medical judgment?” -John Paul Stevens

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  • “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.” -Sandra Fluke

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  • “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.” -Ken Wilber

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  • “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.” -Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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  • “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.” -Peter Lewis Allen

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  • “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.’” -Rebecca Skloot

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  • “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.” -Les Aspin

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  • “Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.” -Tabare Vazquez

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  • “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.” -Haldan Keffer Hartline

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  • “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.” -Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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  • “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.”…

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  • “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.” -David M.…

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  • “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.” -Leonard Alfred George Strong

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  • “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.” -Gerald Griffin

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  • “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.” -Bruce Vento

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  • “There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage – at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.” -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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  • “Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.” -Anthony Principi

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  • “You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.’” -Abe Lemons

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  • “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.” -Alice Hamilton

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  • “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.” -Brande Roderick

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  • “Jews were asked when life begins. For them it’s when they finally graduate medical school.” -Evan Sayet

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  • “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.” -Daniel Nathans

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  • “Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.” -Doug Ose

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  • “Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.” -Bill Nelson

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  • “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.” -Koo Stark

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  • “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.” -Robert Urich

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  • “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.” -Lennart Nilsson

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  • “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.” -Laurent Lamothe

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  • “There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.” -Gerald F. Lieberman

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  • “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.” -Ernest Lawrence

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  • “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.” -Richard Reeves

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  • “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.” -Jonathan Kellerman

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  • “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.” -Jeff Raikes

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  • “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.” -Christiaan Barnard

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  • “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.” -Ken Calvert

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  • “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.” -Sydney Brenner

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  • “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.” -Marc Garneau

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -Jose Serrano

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  • “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.” -Paul Berg

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  • “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.” -Jack Irons

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  • “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.” -Ben Quayle

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  • “Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.” -Ernest Thompson Seton

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  • “Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.” -Lucille Roybal-Allard

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  • “Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.” -Abbie Hoffman

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  • “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.” -William Banting

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  • “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.” -Michael Steele

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  • “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.” -Christopher Shays

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  • “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.” -Peter Shilton

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  • “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.” -Bernard Sanders

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  • “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.” -Tulsi Gabbard

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  • “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.” -Neal Barnard

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  • “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.”…

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  • “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.” -Tipper Gore

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  • “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.” -Ted Strickland

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  • “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.” -Lincoln Chafee

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  • “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.” -Paz de la Huerta

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  • “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.” -Peter Agre

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  • “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.” -Michael Kinsley

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  • “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.” -Tom G. Palmer

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  • “However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.” -Tim Murphy

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  • “They don’t like thinking in medical school. They memorize – that’s all they want you to do. You must not think.” -John Backus

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  • “I’m a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.” -Steven Hatfill

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  • “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.” -Samuel Wilson

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  • “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.” -Karen Duffy

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  • “I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.” -Edwin Moses

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  • “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.” -Mary Stuart Masterson

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  • “If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.” -Roberto Duran

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  • “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.” -Jacob Hacker

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  • “It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.” -Roger Wicker

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  • “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.” -Nathan Deal

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  • “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?” -Timothy Murphy

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  • “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.” -Robert Atkins

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  • “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.” -Jermaine Jackson

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  • “I have four strikes against me. I’m black, I’m short, I’m intelligent, and I have a medical condition.” -Gary Coleman

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  • “America’s doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.” -Mike Ferguson

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  • “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.” -Kathryn Stockett

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  • “There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.” -H. G. Bissinger

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -John Templeton

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  • “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.” -Robert Jay Lifton

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  • “Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.” -Carl Levin

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  • “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.” -Leonard Boswell

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  • “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.” -Steven Van Zandt

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  • “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.” -Martin Fleischmann

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  • “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.” -Chris Van Hollen

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  • “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.” -Linda M. Godwin

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  • “Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.” -Ike Skelton

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  • “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.” -Robin Tunney

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  • “There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.” -John Cameron

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  • “Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.” -Dave Reichert

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  • “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.” -Larry Niven

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  • “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.” -Otto Schily

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  • “Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.” -Katherine Dunn

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  • “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.” -Zach Wamp

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  • “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.” -Emily Greene Balch

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  • “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.” -William Scranton

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  • “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.” -Spencer Bachus

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  • “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.” -Sue Kelly

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  • “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.” -Steve Buyer

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  • “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.” -Ralph Merkle

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  • “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.” -Alex Chiu

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  • “Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.” -Betty Hill

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  • “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.” -David Gest

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  • “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.” -Jim Gerlach

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  • “Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.” -Bob McDonnell

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  • “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.” -Iris Chang

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  • “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.” -Sebastian Junger

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  • “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.” -Claire McCaskill

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  • “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.” -Jon Porter

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  • “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.” -Ernest Istook

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  • “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.” -Jami Gertz

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  • “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.” -Jan Schakowsky

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  • “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.” -Naomi Judd

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  • “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.” -Chester Brown

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  • “I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.” -Peter Diamandis

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  • “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.” -Toni Braxton

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

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  • “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.” -Tom Allen

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  • “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.” -Albert Claude

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  • “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.” -Eli Wallach

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  • “If someone lives in New York, he’s a New Yorker – they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.” -George Pataki

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  • “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.” -Pauline Hanson

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  • “Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.” -Ryan White

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  • “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.” -Melissa Bean

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  • “If we don’t change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.” -Jim Cooper

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  • “When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care – and to the mail.” -William Westmoreland

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  • “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.” -Cobi Jones

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  • “For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.” -Nana Mouskouri

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  • “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.” -Warwick Davis

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  • “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.” -John Doolittle

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  • “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.” -Laurel Clark

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

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

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  • “I’m trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.” -Jack Kevorkian

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  • “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.” -Edward Bach

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  • “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.” -Stanislav Grof

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

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  • “I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.” -Taylor Caldwell

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  • “Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.” -Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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  • “And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.” -Lois Capps

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  • “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?’” -Jimmy Fallon

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  • “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.” -Theodore Sturgeon

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  • “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.” -Chris Ware

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  • “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?” -Michelle Malkin

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

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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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  • “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.” -Lewis Thomas

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

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

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  • “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.” -Danica McKellar

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

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  • “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.” -Thomas Frank

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

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  • “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.” -Benjamin Carson

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  • “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.” -Stephen Harper

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