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Medical Quotes

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

– Carl Levin

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

– Joel Fuhrman

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

– Brad Henry

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

– Barton Gellman

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don’t know much more about soul than he did.

– John Templeton

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn’t matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience.

– Jay Samit

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

– Arlen Specter

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

– Anne Wojcicki

In high school I had B’s and C’s, not too many A’s, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

– Barry Marshall

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?’

– Jimmy Fallon

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

– Abbie Hoffman

Yes. I’m a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

– Ben Goldacre

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

– Barry Ritholtz

I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.

– Aretha Franklin

Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.

– Charles Duhigg

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I’ve sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there’s no virtue in that; it’s the way one is raised.

– Colin Firth

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California’s excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

– Ami Bera

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

– Atul Gawande

In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.

– Bernie Sanders

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you’re now in a different, virtual environment. You’re somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.

– Brendan Iribe

It’s interesting when people make comments about celebrities’ weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they’re a medical professional that’s treating that celebrity. Like, ‘This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.’ If you don’t treat her, then how do you know?

– Busy Philipps

Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.

– Bill Flores

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces’ combat physician on a Navy ship.

– Aaron Ciechanover

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

– Ami Bera

I’m 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down – at least he did until he dropped dead.

– Cesar Romero

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

– Alex Chiu

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.

– Barbara Boxer

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

– Anupam Kher

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They’ve lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

– Atul Gawande

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