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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

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

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

In Germany it's impossible to go bankrupt for medical bills, because even if you are bankrupt, ... the social solidarity system pays for your medical bills. The idea is, if you do have financial problems and a lot of worries for other reasons, you do not need to have another burden in not being able to pay medical bills.

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.

In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.

In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?

Is listening to Pink Floyd in the dark a medical condition?

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

It's very intimidating looking at the script and realizing that you have to say medical jargon as if you've said them a million times before, and they're just a part of your vocabulary. But that's what preparing is for, and you can't just really wing it. You've got to really know what you're doing.

I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

Medical malpractice - that's a great issue for Republicans and you didn't hear anyone talk about it.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.