Doctors Quotes - Page 39

• The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

  Lauren Hutton

  Golf, Play, Tennis

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• One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

  Paul Broun

  Medicine, America, Reform

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.

  William Kristol

  Availability, Drug, President

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• Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Fighting, Medicine

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.5, Humanix Books

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• The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.

  Ronald Reagan

  Lying, Government, Practice

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

  Howard Stern

  Marijuana, Differences, Drug

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• It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

  Prince Charles

  Drug, Becoming, Easy

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• If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

  Vinod Khosla

  School, Math, Lessons

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• Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

  Vinod Khosla

  Average, Machines, Disease

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• By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Medicine, Entrepreneur

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• There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

  Kevin Yoder

  Country, Cutting, Years

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

  Don McCullin

  Want, Saws, Mets

  Don McCullin (2011). “Shaped by War”, Random House UK

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• Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Song, Women

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.574

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

  Mao Zedong

  Life, Weed, Stars

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

  Ellen G. White

  Health, Ignorance, Medicine

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• A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.300, Penguin

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• Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Book, Order

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.88, TAN Books

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• There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

  Edith Clarke

  Pieces, Demand, Engineers

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• The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color. Perhaps this was a hangover from our Puritan ancestors. But whatever the reason, brown, grays and neutrals were the only shades considered 'safe.' Now we know that lovely, clear colors have a vital effect on our mental happiness. Modern doctors and psychiatrists are convinced of this!

  Dorothy Draper

  Hangover, Color, People

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• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  Abram Hoffer

  Believe, Taken, School

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• I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man!

  Steven Moffat

  Queens, Men, Records

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

  Steven Moffat

  Blessed, Wind, Long

  "Fictional character: River Song". Doctor Who: Forest of the Dead, June 7, 2008.

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Practice Of Medicine, Cities

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• If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Medicine, Heroism, Stories

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

  Laurel Clark

  School, Scotland, People

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