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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.