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“The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.”

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Author:Gary Null

“If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.”

Ifs Want Needs Personality Sells Judged Physicians Lacking Salesman Waitress

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.”

Men Suffering Dies Hell Sick Foolish Reputation Physicians Hazards Unfaithful Sick Man

Book:The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.”

Ifs Thinking Water Security Rivers South China Despite Companion Swimming Panic Physicians Sinking Pleading Security Guards

Author:Mao Zedong

“At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.”

“The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman”

Men Needs Women He Man Males Gender Every Man Physicians Homosexuality Liberating Liberated

Author:Magnus Hirschfeld

“Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.”

Men World Real Law Force Prayer Overcoming Sickness Gravity Physicians Laws Of Nature

Author:Alexis Carrel

“Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.”

Needs Feels Greater Approach Physicians Infirmity

Author:Bonaventure

“I have a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record. I understand that people disagree on this issue, but I believe that it is a woman's decision, it's a difficult decision, but it's a decision between her and her physician. I will do everything that I can in 50 states of this country to make sure that women have a choice.”

People Believe I Can Country States Choices I Believe Difficult Decision Issues Records Lifetime Voting Disagree Physicians Difficult Decisions

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government.”

Government Decision Rooms Died Abortion Physicians Abortion Rights

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Feed by measure, and defy the physician.”

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Book:The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...

Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...

“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.”

“A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.”

Persons Care Numbers Training Medical Manage Physicians Rigor Medical Training

Book:Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred

Source: Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred

“It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.”

Wells Doe Alive Produce Citizens Drug Disease Rewards Heal Devices Hospitals More Money Physicians Glorify

Author:Dennis Prager

“Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.”

Men Doe Offers Consequence Aim Medicine Vices Repentance Virtuous Rescue Physicians Hygiene Absolution

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.”

World Whole Shows Differences Opinion Subjects Competition Medical Physicians Hostility Differences Of Opinion

Author:Benjamin Rush

“Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.”

Knows Men Wells Companion Physicians Amiable

Author:Alexander Pope

“Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.”

Wells Individual Community Broken Ought Protect Window Importance Police Illness Physicians Maintaining Fostering Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.”

“Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.”

Giving Reason Ought Judgment Life And Death Physicians Butchers Jurors

Author:Jonathan Swift

“So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.”

People Men Way Long Ideas Sometimes Pay Danger Safe Men And Women Lawyer Vehicle Physicians Incompetent

Author:Jack McDevitt

“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”

Said Ends Matter Cases Treated Nervous Nerves Physicians

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.”

People Thinking Way Shows Night Poor Lord Poverty Millions Praying India Saint Philosopher Tyranny Crafts Priests Physicians Day And Night Incessantly Downtrodden

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.”

People Needs Lines Depends Physicians

Author:Christian Finnegan

“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”

Artist Answers Serious Members Scientist University Pursue Alternatives Complexity Faculty Scholar Engineers Physicians Vocation Ambiguity Psychologist Right Answers Faculty Members

Author:Leon Botstein

“To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.”

Men Organs Physicians Amplification

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without a soul, it too cannot be fully understood or defined by science. Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.”

Soul Body Form Energy Love Is Powerful Elements Understood Sick Medicine Reactions Cures Defined Most Powerful Chemicals Physicians Competence Decipher Chemical Reactions Science Love

Author:Suzy Kassem

“My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.”

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Author:Francis Collins

“Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.”

Helping Energy Healing Creative Essence Physicians Creative Energy

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.”

Ifs Said Asks Patient Physicians Diagnosis Skillful Right Questions

Book:Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine

Source: Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine

“We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.”

Art Three Disease Patient Factors Servant Physicians

Author:Hippocrates

“There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.”

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Author:Gerald McRaney

“I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.”

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Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.”

Interest Policy Realization Academic Physicians Clinicals Scholarly

Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.”

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Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there's a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is.”

Thinking Wells Important Enough Understanding Research Scientist Faults Communicate Physicians Lack Of Understanding Biomedical

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“If one has a routine colonoscopy at the age of 50 and then colonoscopies thereafter as the physician recommends, you could largely prevent colon cancer, you could detect it in its very earliest stages and cure it.”

Ifs Age Stage Cancer Cures Routine Physicians Colon Cancer Colonoscopy

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness.”

People Trying Mind Wells Body Turns Teacher Health Treats Heal Sickness Physicians

Author:Ralph Waldo Trine

“The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?”

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Author:Tom Coburn

“I'm a physician. I see the physiological changes that happen in normal aging, in patients again and again and again over the last 20, 25 years. So I do know what happens to the body and the mind at the end of life.”

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Author:Kelli Ward

“I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You could say, very concerned about our younger generation that does not have the jobs they need to get themselves out of the debt that they're in. And have the full weight of the climate crisis exploding on them - on their watch.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed.”

Special Ears India Ancient Indian Noses Operations Branches Dedicated Hinduism Physicians Surgery Improving Surgeons Borrowed

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers, although that was Jack Geiger's thing.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.”

“If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you."”

Ifs Years I Can Can Do Study Arms Physicians Headache Swollen

Author:Devra Davis

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