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“So unless we form some kind of adequate relationship to death, we're never going to live properly, and if we think of it purely as a medical thing, we have reduced life. We should think of it as some sort of mystery which we can participate in now, not something to be pushed off to one side till the last moments.”

Ifs Thinking Should Kind Moments Lasts Form Sides Mystery Medical Adequate

Author:Kevin Hart

“I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.”

Ifs Knows Rooms Degrees Doctors Medical Psychological

Author:John Oliver

“All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.”

People Two Play Use Hands Majors Instruments Medicine Medical Procedures Two Hands Medical Procedures

Author:Tom Waits

“I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.”

Years Wanted School Late Intellectual Decided Medical Historian Senior Juniors Harvard Medical School Senior Year

Author:Eric Kandel

“When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.”

Ifs I Can Stories Bigs My Own Deals Drama Medical Engaged Tied Big Deal Tied Up

Author:Katherine Boo

“The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him”

Bigs Rounds Medical Oxygen

Author:Paul Merson

“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”

“Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.”

Writing May Enough Jobs Political Values Modern Higher Machines Myth Medical Eras Software Accountants Replacements Technicians Modern Era

Author:Bill Gross

“FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.”

Important Care Steps Path Information Medical Routine Integrated Medical Care Fda Clearance

Author:Anne Wojcicki

“All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.”

“When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.”

Individual Causes Involved Eating Medical Bars Mars Obesity

Author:Peter Shilton

“Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.”

Long Body Christian Culture Nations Morality Ethics Doctors Constitution Notion Medical Euthanasia Christian Morality

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'”

Thinking Giving Wells Use Care Able Research Access Medical Payment Medical Care

Author:Rebecca Skloot

“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“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.”

Hard Hate Cases Disease Profession Medical Teeth Cures Phony Medical Profession Placebo

Author:Charles Jencks

“Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?”

Doe Art Stories Clear Figures Taught Training Complexes Medical Mythology Symbols Ritual Breaking Down Relevance Anatomy Mazes Physiology Anatomy And Physiology Medical Training

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.”

Reason School Wish Becoming Healthy Doctors Medical Unhealthy Medical School Becoming A Doctor

Author:Bernie Siegel

“Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.”

Funny Choices Belief Water Virtue Fine Expectations Conscious Humorous Medicine Medical Beast Fence Great Expectations Cupboards Elixir Nastiness Great Expectations Important

Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.”

Long Use Culture Community Ought Consequence Doctors And Love Blame Medical Favors Goddess Contagious Venus Astronomers Beauty And Love

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.”

Ifs May Artist Culture Creative Smart Doctors Scientist Profession Brilliant Lawyer Medical Saved Labs Creative Art Creative Artists Medical Doctor

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.”

Has Beens Care Moving Fields Balls Patient Medical Health Care Organized Surgery Specialty Ping Ping Pong Cardiac

Author:Michael Porter

“I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.”

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Author:Michael Porter

“A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.”

Men Religion Religious Views Too Much Pride Intellect Medical Physicians Religious Views Too Much Pride

Author:George Eliot

“I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Persons Problem Turns Social Hell Atheism Hearing Positive Atheism Proof Medical Collections Liability Vowels Consonants

Author:Frank Zappa

“I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.”

Children Enough Dream Care School Chance College Medical Medical Care

Author:Bill Gates

“Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.”

Needs Balance Approach Medicine Ancient Medical Resurgence

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.”

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Author:Maya Tiwari

“The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.”

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.”

Ifs Giving Stills Important Found Secret Bottom Medical Gestures Ceremony Haiti Voodoo Medical Science

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

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Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.”

May Has Beens Important Desire Education Students Taught Regard Medical Statements Epitaph Important Work

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.”

“Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.”

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Author:August Bier

“Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .”

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Author:Maimonides

“Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.”

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Author:Sean Berdy

“New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.”

“The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.”

“For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.”

“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”

Thinking Should Firsts Doe Ability Pay Principles Universal Determine Committed Critical Access Medical

Author:Stephen Harper

“Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.”

People Needs Years Two Earth Faces Quality Cost Medical Two Years Intervention Quality Of Life Older People

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.”

Ifs Giving Wells Has Beens Care Simple Class Break Middle Fairs Medical Income Health Care Middle Class Wealthy Just Being Entitled Propositions Adequate Taxpayers

Author:Joe Biden

“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.”

Thinking Children Important Next Difficult Technology Failing Effects Industry Our Children Medical Cures Providing Oblivion Best Education

Author:Sam Harris

“The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.”

“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.”

“I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.”

Community Danger Source Aids Medical Assistance Provision

Author:P. W. Botha

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

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