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Virginia Johnson
"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."
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Ramakrishna
"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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David Riesman
"If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives."
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Alfred P. Sloan
"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis."
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John Donne
"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."
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Florence Nightingale
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."
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William O. Douglas
"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
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Nellie Bly
"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it."
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Meriwether Lewis
"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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Marcel Proust
"The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome."
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Richard M. Sherman
"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."
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Nellie Bly
"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."
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Virgil
"The medicine increases the disease."
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Mark Udall
"Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases."
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Deyth Banger
"Doctors sometimes don't know what they do!"
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Ovid
"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."
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Bob Pettit
"Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick."
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William Shakespeare
"True apothecary thy drugs art quick."
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Irving Langmuir
"Medicine also disregards national boundaries."
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Betty Hill
"On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public."
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John Podesta
"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."
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John Fletcher
"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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Josh Billings
"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
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Ernest Hemingway
"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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Toba Beta
"Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering."
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Paul Dudley White
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
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