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Medical Quotes
Medicine, from career choice to childhood play.
This medical quotes collection includes a family pushing toward a medical career while music pulled harder, alongside a childhood spent playing doctor with dolls on secret missions. See Doctor quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
While health reform is a worthy goal, we shouldn't pay for it by taxing those who already have high medical costs because they or someone in their family has a disability.
- Efficacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for America to remain the leader in medical innovation, we must reduce costs, ease regulatory burdens, and increase the efficacy of producing new treatments and cures here in the U.S.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
To ensure that America remains the leader in medical innovation, we must reduce the costs of developing life-saving drugs and ensure that there are appropriate economic incentives in place to produce them.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
While global research is crucial, the U.S. must maintain its leadership role as the world's innovator for both medical advancement and job creation.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the right policies and regulations, the opportunities for American medical advancement and scientific innovation are boundless.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say women have made great strides: in biology, in many areas of chemistry, in many places, women are now the majority of medical students. But when I began my career, that wasn't the case. There were very strong stereotypes in biology and medicine.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020