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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better electronic health records, more inter-operability amongst various types of electronic systems and cybersecurity is becoming a huge deal in in health care. Health care records are highly sought after by virtue of the fact that not only do you have somebody's person financial information, you also have their person medical information.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has been advancing. We have now genomic data. We have the power of big data about what your living patterns are, what's happening in your body. Even your smartphone can collect data about your walking or your pulse or other things that could be incredibly meaningful in being able to predict whether you have disease coming in the future and help avert those problems.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

The Illinois Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana. The bill was passed after the state senator said, 'Come on, dude, pass it. Come on.'

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

The next wave of medical advances will be when we come to recognize the body as an energetic system.