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Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

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

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.