“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”
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“Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.”
“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.”
“A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.”
“I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.”
“Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.”
“As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.”
“I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.”
“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.”
“The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.”
“Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.”
“I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.”
“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.”
“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.”
“Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.”
“I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.”
“Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.”
“But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?”
“Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.”
“I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.”
“The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.”
“If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.”
“It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.”