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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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"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."
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"Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem."
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"Every year, more than 300 million x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and other medical imaging exams are performed in the United States, and seven out of 10 people undergo some type of radiologic procedure."
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"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."
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"The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications."
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"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."
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"Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us."
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"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price."
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"Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers."
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"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold."
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"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."
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"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."
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"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."
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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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"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."
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"The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's."
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"In diagnosis think of the easy first."
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"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."
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"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."
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"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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