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"I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances."
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"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."
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"Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine."
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"Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick."
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"Medicine also disregards national boundaries."
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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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"It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned."
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"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."
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"Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient."
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"True apothecary thy drugs art quick."
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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
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"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
Family
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
Connection
"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
Cultural
"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."
Time
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
Emotional
"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."
People
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
Want
"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
Psychology
"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
Body
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