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“The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.”

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Author:Denton Cooley

“Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will always be some indeterminism ... in all the sciences, and more in medicine than in any other. But man's intellectual conquest consists in lessening and driving back indeterminism in proportion as he gains ground for determinism by the help of the experimental method.”

“If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.”

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Author:Peter Medawar

“Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.”

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Author:Norman Cousins

“I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.”

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Author:Richard Lamm

“Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.”

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.”

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Author:Robert Jarvik

“The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.”

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Author:Wilfred Trotter