#medical

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#always #blood #color #did #doctor

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#accept #agent #community #get #harmed

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK. ↗

— Koo Stark

#am #america #breast cancer #cancer #cent

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment? ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#decision #judgment #make #medical

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#because #different #inherently #involves #life

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#american society #as far as #became #concerned #encountered

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#art #exercise #learned #medicine #only

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

#body #children #did #doctors #grandfather

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#better #doctors #fact #get #great

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#atlanta #audience #boston #ceremonial #dance