- Donor
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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not a right, any more than they have the right to shield their children from healthcare or medicine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain visual grammar you've got to stick in. For example, if a character has just woken up, draw him in his pajamas with the bed a bit rumpled. Or if he's ill, draw little bottles with red crosses on that immediately communicate medicine, and a box of tissues.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's a nurse so I was going to go into medicine, also.
- Exclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialized medicine allows a nation to exclude a U.S. product from its market if the U.S. firm does not make generous enough price concessions. Accordingly, what has developed is a system within which U.S. firms make large profits on new drugs in the U.S. market, but very low profits on sales everywhere else.
- Physician
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
- Grammar School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
- Doubts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
- Flowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020