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  • We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

    Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press
  • An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

    Intelligent   May   Fool  
  • The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

    Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.
  • HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

    Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.663, Library of America
  • In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations. His recent statements have betrayed his openly contemptuous attitude toward American health care and out top-flight medical profession. His attitude is consistent with his revealed general attitude about America, which he denigrates every time he gets a chance, especially on foreign soil.

    Attitude   America   Care  
  • Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

  • Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

    Past   Reality   Silence  
  • In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

  • The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

    Country   Jobs   Healing  
  • These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

    Dark   Community   Age  
  • The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

  • ..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.

    Country   Military   Dark  
  • The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

    Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.323
  • I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  • The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.

    Children   Egypt   People  
    Source: muse.jhu.edu
  • Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

    "May Doctors Help You to Die?". www.nybooks.com. October 11, 2012.
  • Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.

    Sex   Men   Feminist  
  • Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

    Lying   Healing   Health  
  • LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.

    Play   Drug   Trying  
    "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.
  • Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

  • There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  • I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

    "Reese Witherspoon's New Passion". Interview with Abigail Pesta, www.marieclaire.com. January 11, 2008.
  • 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: a man of sense and sensibility" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.
  • First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated.

    Source: muse.jhu.edu
  • The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  • The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.

  • Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

    Honesty   Voice   Doctors  
  • God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

    Nursing   Race   Doors  
    "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.
  • Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself.

    Past   Fda   Two  
    "The Truth About the Drug Companies". www.nybooks.com. July 15, 2004.
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