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“The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.” -Arlen Specter
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“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.” -Colin Firth
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“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.” -John Sununu
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“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.” -Julie Burchill
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“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.” -Ashley Montagu
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“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.” -Samuel Butler
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“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.” -Ron Paul
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“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.” -Bill Hicks
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“Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the ‘will of the people’ goes out the window.” -Bill Maher
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“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.” -Samora Machel
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“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.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“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.” -Anita Baker
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“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.” -Tina Fey
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“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?” -Deepak Chopra
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“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.” -Brad Henry
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“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.” -Michael J. Fox
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“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.” -Terry Pratchett
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“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.” -Chris Christie
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“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.” -David Suzuki
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“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.” -Margaret Sanger
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“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.” -Nicole Kidman
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“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.”…
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“I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?” -Jay London
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“I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.” -Charles Schumer
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“I’m by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I’ve seen it save a lot of people’s lives.” -Zach Braff
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“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.” -Charlotte Ross
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“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.” -Peter Shaffer
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“In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.” -Martin H. Fischer
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“Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.” -John Ensign
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“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.” -Thomas Sydenham
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“I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.” -James H. Boren
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“I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.” -Ty Cobb
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“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” -Alice James
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“Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn’t have any procedures.” -David Jones
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“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.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.” -Mark Twain
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“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.” -Ronald Reagan
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“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.” -Steve…
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“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.” -Rita Rudner
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“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.” -Ovid
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“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.” -Walter Matthau
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“When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.” -Henny Youngman
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“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.” -Nicolas Cage
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“In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.” -Edward Everett Hale
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“The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.” -Dizzy Dean
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“I’m 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down – at least he did until he dropped dead.” -Cesar Romero
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“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.” -Cass Canfield
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“You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.” -Michael Landon
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“People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.” -Martha Beck
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“The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed.” -Samuel Hahnemann
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“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.” -Norman Cousins
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“Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.” -Zoe Saldana
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“When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.” -Enid Bagnold
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“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.” -Anthony Edwards
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“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.” -Bill Frist
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“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.” -Groucho Marx
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“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.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.” -Anton Chekhov
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“When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“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.” -Isaac Asimov
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“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.” -Marcel Proust
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“You may not be able to read a doctor’s handwriting and prescription, but you’ll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.” -Earl Wilson
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“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.” -Ivan Illich
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“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.” -Hippocrates
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“The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.” -Denis Diderot
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