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John Podesta

"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."

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"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."

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"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."

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"The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome."

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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."

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"The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians."

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"But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]"

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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."

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