- Merit
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay for new medicines? Innovators should be rewarded according to the impact of their medicine, and people should contribute to these rewards according to their ability to pay.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.
- Intervention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
My diagnosis had been discussed in almost every major medical journal, including the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' and 'The New York Times.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020