- Mind
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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
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person's medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
- Consisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, I'll do a quick workout in my hotel room consisting of exercises for the legs, glutes, abs, and arms with my own body weight. Also, I always have a jump rope, a medicine ball I can inflate, and a band in my suitcase. It's a great kit to have for travel.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought when I left medicine it would just be a one-year timeout and I'd go back, but that's now turned into many more.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained very hard to get into medicine, so I won't say I'll never go back to it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020