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• Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.

  Taurean Green

  Struggle, Night, Lasts

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• 450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.

  Jane Elliott

  Children, War, Believe

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• To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Men, Wife

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• I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

  Samuel Wilson

  School, Medical, University

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• The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

  Robert Genn

  People, World, Pilots

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• At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.

  John Ratey

  Stress, Wine, Exercise

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• I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.

  Anne Lamott

  Smart, Lying, Men

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• Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

  David Bolinsky

  Art, School, Illustration

  "Lives of a cell, the 3-D version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 1007.

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• Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine.

  Vasant Lad

  Keys, Care, Constitution

  Vasant Lad, David Frawley (1986). “The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine”, p.50, Lotus Press

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• Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body.

  Christiane Northrup

  Exercise, Cells, Looks

  Dr. Christiane Northrup (2015). “Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Drug Use

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• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  O. Henry

  Funeral, Patient, Carriages

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Real, Alive

  "Tales and Novels". Book by Maria Edgeworth, vol. 14, p. 245, 1843.

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• When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "How I Grew". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1987.

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• In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

  Henci Goer

  Skins, Crowns, Tissues

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  Wangari Maathai

  Party, People, House

  "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.

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• Marijuana is a proven medicine.

  Tommy Chong

  Marijuana, Proven

  "Cheech & Chong Light Up 'The Factor'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Needs, Needed

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

  Ann Romney

  Taken, Littles, Merit

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• It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Giving, Community

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• Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Evil, World

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Psychology, Atheism

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

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• Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Responsibility, Healing

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.210, New World Library

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• Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

  Donald A. Norman

  Practice, Usual, Disease

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, p. 173, 1988.

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