“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.” IfsKnowsNeedsHumansHardEnoughShowsBodyLossBrokenDegreesStrongerFilledBonesMedicalHolesCracksReplacedHuman BodyHealedHealed You Book:Come Home: A Novel Source: Come Home: A Novel
“First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.” GivingFirstsHumansPersonsImportantBodyPainScienceOpportunityHoursPleasureStudyTroubleImportanceProfessionMedicalEaseSmallestDistressMasterpieceMiraculousHuman BodyVesselConsoleFiberSufferersAlleviateMedical Profession Author:Rudolf Virchow
“What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible!” BelieveMeanProblemBodyImpossibleHealthDiseaseDoctorsMedicineMedicalCuresSymptomsViewpointsCorrectingGood Doctors Author:Philip K. Chapman
“Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.” PersonsStatesBodyPurposeResearchOrganizationInstitutionsMedicalBoardsApprovalPartingParts Of The BodyMedical EducationNotify Author:Charlie Crist
“If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.” IfsImportantBodyAmountInvolvedPeriodsSkillsCancerMedicalYour BodyConsiderationMaximumVitamins Author:Ernst T. Krebs
“The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.” KnowsMindBodyCausesEasyProduceMembersDiseaseMedicineProfessionMedicalDisorderWiserMedical ProfessionMental Disorder Author:Robert Owen
“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.” WellsChildrenStillsSelfStatesBodyRealityPoliticalChoicesChurchUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleIgnoranceDeterminationCatholicMalesIncludingProfessionMedicalLifestyleAlternativesAbortionDependentMiddle ClassSelf DeterminationDisguiseCatholic ChurchLegislatorsPhysicalityPharmaceuticalVeneerJurists Author:Adrienne Rich