“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
“I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.” IfsWorldSocialGrowsNumbersGroupsParticularMetsLuckyDemandDiseaseIncreaseWorkersRoundsVariousProfessionProportionHaltUnemployedSubwayProfessionalismPresent DayConductorSocial WorkerRigidityOligarchyIrrelevanceBricklayers Author:Ted Nelson
“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.” Has BeensFactsLastsSilenceToo MuchWifeMinutesIgnoranceDiseaseVictimProfessionMedicalConspiracyWomens RightsOne MinuteMedical Profession Author:Christabel Pankhurst
“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.” HardHateCasesDiseaseProfessionMedicalTeethCuresPhonyMedical ProfessionPlacebo Author:Charles Jencks
“The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayChildrenCareSufferingGivenPoorTroubleEconomicSecurityReadyDiseaseProfessionMedicalEgyptNot ReadyMedical ProfessionMedical CareEconomic Security Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be “of Venus” ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can’t blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession.” PeopleWayLongWould BeFormOughtDiseaseDoctorsBlameProfessionMedicalAstronomyLatinMarsVenusAstronomersMartiansMedical Doctor Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.” IfsBelieveWould BeCareCommunityHealthCircumstancesDiseaseIndependenceCompetitionBe GoodProfessionAbsenceHealth CareOrganizedCanadaMinistryPublic Health Author:William Osler
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.” IfsKindLongDoeHardWould BeEnergyHoursViewsPayToo MuchBloodHard WorkAmountDiseaseProfessionHospitalsNurseFeverNursingInadequateManiaIncurable Disease Author:Monica Dickens