Medical Profession Quotes - Page 2

• The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Wish, Getting Older

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Knowledge, Medicine

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• Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Ignorance, Wife, Silence

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• LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.

  Albert Hofmann

  Play, Drug, Trying

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• 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.

  Margaret Sanger

  Past, Reality, Silence

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• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Medicine

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• HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Humour, Humorists

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.663, Library of America

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• Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

  Akhil Sharma

  Honesty, Voice, Doctors

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• The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.

  Gene Veith

  Mother, Father, Military

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• The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

  Florence Nightingale

  Mind, Doctrine, Disease

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• The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

  Clarence Darrow

  Country, Jobs, Healing

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• The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.

  William Proxmire

  Dark, Fda, Vitamins And Minerals

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• When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Healing, Thinking

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• These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

  Ted Gup

  Dark, Community, Age

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• The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

  Morris Fishbein

  Dark, Loss, Suffering

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• The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

  John le Carre

  Country, Vaccines, Systematic

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• A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

  Brigid Brophy

  Pain, Animal, May

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• Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Ignorance, Ideas, Culture

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• Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

  Lewis Hyde

  Ideas, Community, May

  "'In the United States, the individualist argument is the myth we can't get out of'". Interview with Akshay Ahuja, logger.believermag.com. January 9, 2015.

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• A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

  Charles Jencks

  Hate, Teeth, Disease

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• The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

  Robert Owen

  Medicine, Mind, Body

  "The Book of the New Moral World". Book by Robert Owen, Part 3, 1845.

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• Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

  Marcia Angell

  Suffering, Life Is, States

  "May Doctors Help You to Die?". www.nybooks.com. October 11, 2012.

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• My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

  Colin Firth

  Teaching, People, Grandparent

  "Colin Firth: a man of sense and sensibility" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.

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• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Cutting

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