- Practice
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
- Absolutely Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're sick, you should be able to see a doctor. And if you're seen, you should be able to afford the bill and your medicine without going broke. There is absolutely nothing radical about this.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine is so fascinating.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied the sciences up until going to college, and I was either going to do medicine or drama. I chose drama, but I come from a whole line of doctors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a medicine cabinet.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an environment that keeps medical students in Arizona to practice medicine once they complete medical school and their residency programs.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020