“Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.” GovernmentActionFatherRightsEconomicDemandClaimsMedicineGoodsFoundingOur Founding FathersTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Ilana Mercer
“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.” PeopleWellsArtShowsSeemsPainLinesClassGoneProductsClaimsMedicineOilProfessionBunchTherapyFallenInjuryConvinceClientsSnakesHookTherapistsHolisticMassageGullibleMassage Therapists Author:Laura Allen
“Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.” IfsKnowsMenWantGivingBelieveMayRealFactsHelpingMightUniverseNaturalAnswersChristianityHonestAccountsClaimsMedicineBeing TrueHelpfulHonest ManUntruePatents Author:C. S. Lewis
“We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.” HeartWomenDealsIssuesDogFemaleDoctorsTreatsClaimsMedicineIllnessSmellLikesProseSavagesDoctor WhoBachelorsWomanizerGynecologists Author:Anton Chekhov
“I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more we learn about living creatures, especially ourselves, the stranger life becomes.” ThinkingLifeSeemsScienceUnderstandingFieldsCreaturesClaimsMedicineStrangerGenuineBiologyLiving Creatures Author:Lewis Thomas
“In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.” EnoughWholeScienceEducationStudyToo MuchOne ThingStudentsLimitsClaimsMedicineMedicalWhole LifeExpertsBranchesChemistryDeclineIncapableLecturesAcademyComprehensionSurveysPrudentHastyBotany Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself” IfsHumansDoneWholeTogetherCertainUniverseProcessSoundNaturalExistenceEnvironmentPiecesFailingClaimsMedicinePatternsVariousMissionsDiscoveringContinuingLivestock Author:Louis Bromfield