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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
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020