3 December 2020 Abe Lemons Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
3 December 2020 Lennart Nilsson I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor – it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don’t know.
3 December 2020 Peter Diamandis I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
3 December 2020 Haldan Keffer Hartline Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
3 December 2020 Alice Hamilton When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
3 December 2020 Chris Van Hollen Although awareness of cancer’s prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
3 December 2020 Leonard Alfred George Strong I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.
3 December 2020 Christiaan Barnard I don’t believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
3 December 2020 Alice James One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
3 December 2020 Arlen Specter The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
3 December 2020 John Cameron I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
3 December 2020 Jim Gerlach Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors’ annual medical expenses.
3 December 2020 Timothy Murphy If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?
3 December 2020 Daniel Nathans And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
3 December 2020 Melissa Bean During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
3 December 2020 Jami Gertz The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don’t have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
3 December 2020 Gerald F. Lieberman There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.
3 December 2020 Michael Kinsley The logic is often far-fetched – how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? – and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
3 December 2020 Sydney Brenner In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo But I contend that if we’re providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn’t we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
3 December 2020 Linda M. Godwin There’s a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
3 December 2020 Roger Wicker It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
3 December 2020 Rebecca Skloot The sort of thinking at the time was, ‘Well, we’re giving you access to medical care which you wouldn’t otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.’
3 December 2020 Peter Lewis Allen Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.
3 December 2020 Jon Porter With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
