Medical Quotes - Page 7

• According to your medical checkup, you are dead.

  Rene Desmaison

  Death, Suicide

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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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• Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision I have continued to use both medications.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Doctors, Years, Growth Hormones

  "Sylvester Stallone Pleads Guilty to Bringing Human Growth Hormone Into Australia". www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2007.

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• After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Selfish, Rocks

  "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

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• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

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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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• [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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• Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Feet, Glasses

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.63, Penguin

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• I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

  Rodman Philbrick

  Heart, Body, Bigs

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “Freak The Mighty”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  People, Cures, Enormous

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• He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Doctors, Way, Educated

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.89, Scholastic Inc.

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• Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Selfish, Men, Medicine

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.11, Crown Business

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• I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

  Laura Bush

  Thinking, Important, Wade

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• “Don’t worry, there are many safeguards in place. Unless you want me to have Logan explain—” “No! I trust you.” He clutched his hands to his chest. “She… Gasp… Trusts me! Call for medical aid stat!” I swung at him, but he grabbed my wrist and pulled me to my feet. Snaking his arms around my waist, he said, “We need to celebrate this momentous occasion.” "What are we celebrating?" Jacob Ashon, Riley's father, asked from the doorway.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Father, Hands, Feet

  "Outside In". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2010.

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• Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Hands, Cold

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• ‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

  Barry Goldwater

  Believe, Government, Differences

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• A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.

  Jim Butcher

  Country, Islands, Issues

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Attention, Examination, Labs

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• I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then you realize they're actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient's open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It's selfish. And means they're not concentrating, which is medical negligence.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Hate, Selfish, Mean

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

  Joe Hill

  Blood, Degrees, Three

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.364, Hachette UK

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• I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

  Anne Sexton

  Letting Go, Brain, Hypothesis

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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