Medical Quotes - Page 5

• What can't be cured must be endured.

  Salman Rushdie

  Medicine

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• You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  School, Thinking, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation. 'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone. 'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.' (Katniss and Boggs)

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Gone, Done

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.131, Scholastic Inc.

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• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  Marilu Henner

  Doctors, Pigs, Class

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• No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Medical Problems, Should Have

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• If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Block, Humor

  "Post-Sachsgate, standups should channel Bill Hicks" by Bruce Dessau, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Political, Abuse, Arbitrary

  Abbie Hoffman (1987). “Steal this Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America”, Penguin Group USA

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• He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sexiness, Turns, Intervention

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• [...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Voice, Acting

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Waiting Rooms, Long

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• I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Suffering, Serious

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• In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

  Dennis Quaid

  Thinking, Color, Pilots

  "Dennis Quaid Interview - THE EXPRESS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 7, 2008.

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• I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

  Ben Quayle

  Trying, President, Reform

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• You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Politics

  "Ronald Reagan".

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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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• I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

  Cesar Romero

  Insomnia, Doctors, Tranquility

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• Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

  Charlotte Ross

  Stars, Games, Lucky

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

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• I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Religious, Doctors, Light

  "Don Miguel Ruiz, ‘Four Agreements’ Author, Explores One Of Life’s Greatest Questions: Who Are We?". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2013.

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• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  Zoe Saldana

  Growing Up, Doctors, Barbie Dolls

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• [T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

  Jay-Z

  Medical Problems, Addiction, Drug

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Random House Group

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• I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

  Eric Schmidt

  Looks, Body, Addresses

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• I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

  Eric Schmidt

  Children, Optimistic, People

  "The future according to Mr Google". Interview with Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

  William Scranton

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

  Patti Smith

  Sibling, War, Kids

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Home, People, Thousand

  "Democratic Sen. Stabenow On Health Care". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 4, 2010.

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