- Citadel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine Quotes
On doctors, patients, prescriptions, and the art of healing.
These quotes span personal and political ground — someone glad they never became a doctor, concern that prescription costs point to a broken system, and a reminder that medicine has always mixed treatment with reassurance. See Doctor quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patience is the best medicine.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laboratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the medicine of the mind.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine is no longer looking at organs. It looks at the processes inside the cell.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from gender-balanced workplaces. I started off working in medicine, and when I went through med school, it's 50/50 men and women. And when I started working as a doctor, it's 50/50 men and women. So I've always been very accustomed to women occupying pivotal roles in the professional environment.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020