3 December 2020 Norman Cousins It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
3 December 2020 Evan Sayet Jews were asked when life begins. For them it’s when they finally graduate medical school.
3 December 2020 John Backus They don’t like thinking in medical school. They memorize – that’s all they want you to do. You must not think.
3 December 2020 Tina Fey A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
3 December 2020 Julie Bishop Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
3 December 2020 David Jones Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn’t have any procedures.
3 December 2020 Chris Ware I don’t think there’s any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don’t like or respect in at least some way or another. We’re all marginal laborers – we’re practically medical oddities – so I don’t see why we can’t all be nice to each other.
3 December 2020 John Cameron There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.
3 December 2020 Ike Skelton Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
3 December 2020 Jacob Hacker Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage I was always shocked when I went to the doctor’s office and they did my X-ray and didn’t find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
3 December 2020 John Cameron Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
3 December 2020 Mary Stuart Masterson I’d like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
3 December 2020 Gerald Griffin I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
3 December 2020 Eli Wallach I’d come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
3 December 2020 Colin Firth 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.
3 December 2020 Marilu Henner 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.
3 December 2020 Nicholas D. Kristof There is an element of anger among women who’ve been raped. There’s certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
3 December 2020 Paul Farmer I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn’t be such a big deal.
3 December 2020 Iris Chang The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
3 December 2020 Enid Bagnold When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
3 December 2020 Bill Maher Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the ‘will of the people’ goes out the window.
3 December 2020 Earl Wilson You may not be able to read a doctor’s handwriting and prescription, but you’ll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
3 December 2020 Ty Cobb I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
3 December 2020 Tim Murphy However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
3 December 2020 Jeff Raikes When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it’s more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children’s school tuition.
