- 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
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
- Medical
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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.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
- Function
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- Nov 07, 2020
The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
- Godlike
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- Nov 07, 2020