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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.
- Blunted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe eating is a form of medicine, a reasoned way of giving your body and mind what it needs.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell myself that water is my medicine and that to stay well, I have to drink a gallon of it every day.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020