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"I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist."
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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"Medical physics is an applied area of physics."
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"I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment."
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"Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%."
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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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"To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?"
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"I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices."
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"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."
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"When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills."
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"If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy."
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"I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society."
Society
"Medical physics is an applied area of physics."
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"When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology."
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"I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role."
Hospitals
"We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea."
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"I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist."
Medical
"If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them."
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"I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field."
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"There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958."
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"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries."
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