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"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
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"Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue."

"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."

"In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system."

"The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland."

"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."

"Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on."
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"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."

"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations."

"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."

"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."

"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill."

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
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