#medicine

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ↗

— Sima Qian

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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. ↗

— Nell Carter

#diabetic #feared #having #i #me

Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine. ↗

— Dr Charles Menninger

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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

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Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. ↗

— John H. Tobe

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If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare. ↗

— John Podesta

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The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. ↗

— Hippocrates

#art

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

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Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with practice and age; both depend on immediacy, precision, and opposable thumbs.) ↗

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

#medicine #music #age