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"Medical physics is an applied area of physics."
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"Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?""
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"Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable."
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"Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us."
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"We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo."
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"In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering."
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"Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed."
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"I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation."
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"I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended."
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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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"I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it."
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"I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health."
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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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"I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home."
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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 am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist."
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"Medical physics is an applied area of physics."
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"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 found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!"
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"It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity."
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"When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics."
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