Medical Care Quotes

• 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.

  Samora Machel

  Dog, Men, Vaccines

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Medicine, People, Care

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

  Jim Riley

  Health, Citizens, Cost

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• If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

  Ralph Merkle

  Happy Life, Careers, Healthy

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• Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Community, Limited Resources, Care

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

  Maimonides

  Health, Nursing, Medicine

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

  William Westmoreland

  Vietnam, Care, Mail

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• Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

  Dave Reichert

  Priorities, Adequate, Care

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  America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  Walter Cronkite

  Health, Caring, America

  "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Doctors, Blood, Medicine

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1102, Vintage

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Doctors

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• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  William Osler

  Education, Healing, Health

  In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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• It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Reality, People

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• Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

  Annie Lennox

  Medicine, People, Needs

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

  Arlen Specter

  Cost, Care, Way

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• The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doctors, Care, Medical

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and the end of begging for medical care.  Everyone will be cared for and educated.  There will be no taxation, and no advantage group.  No technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism.  If that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, People, Groups

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• I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Should Have, Care

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• What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Government, Ideas

  "Unhealthy Arrogance". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2009.

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