Quotes About Medicine

But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps -- would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity.

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

of the USA. When the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, one of the pioneering prepaid group health plans, was organized in the late 1930s, its founders included activists in trade unions and producer co-ops. Because health co-ops were fiercely opposed by organized medicine, their leaders and members necessarily had to become active in progressive politics.

Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale

He was especially known for treating skin afflictions, often with an application of pork fat, and as a result, he had come to be associated with such skin diseases as eczema and the eponymous Saint Anthony's fire.

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No, you don't get a chance to bargain. As an individual, you have to pay full freight." "Why is that? Why do I have to pay more than health insurance companies for the same service?" "This is how American hospital-based medicine works," Roger snapped. "I don't have time to explain it to you, nor is it my job.

He almost dreaded to find out what was going on in the hospital. It was like a sickness in his own family. Medicine had been his life.

with his irritation and anger still at a boiling point, Brian thought again about the two CEOs and how they seemed to be poster children for what was wrong with American medicine and unbridled entrepreneurial capitalism. And as a doer, he knew he couldn't just passively allow their greediness to go unchallenged and dictate the unraveling of his life. He had to do something. He just didn't know what.

Because it can be the key to my freedom," said Martin holding her close. "You have become my promise for fulfillment and research has the power of giving me what I want from medicine as well as more time with you.

It was an awful reminder of how much business interests have taken over medicine. Especially with private equity trying to eke out every last penny of compensation

Vaccines in general and MMR in particular do not cause autism, period, end of story.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Laughing is medicine for the soul.

That spring, Gates had survived a serious illness, awakening his curiosity about American medicine.

the RIMR was now "probably the best equipped institution for the study of the causes and cure of disease to be found anywhere in the world

Rockefeller was fortunate to have applied his money at the precise moment that medical research matured as a discipline and offered unbounded opportunities.

Rockefeller eventually realized that medical research ideally suited his needs.

By 1910, medicine and education had emerged as the top priorities of the Rockefeller philanthropies

He is almost exclusively preoccupied with his bodily health, thinking of different medicines, new diets and possibly new doctors!

Big Bill's interest in medicine, conventional and otherwise, began to surface in his son and became more pronounced with time.

Perhaps it was from Lucy that he inherited the fascination with medicine that ran through his life, right up to his creation of the world's preeminent medical-research institute.

THIS MEANS THE LAST REASON TO HAVE PSYCHIATRY AROUND IS GONE

you know much about head injuries?' 'only the ones I cause