#medicine

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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. ↗

— John Cameron

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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#catch #job #medicine #research #stay

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#change

Until fairly recently, every family had a cornucopia of favorite home remedies--plants and household items that could be prepared to treat minor medical emergencies, or to prevent a common ailment becoming something much more serious. Most households had someone with a little understanding of home cures, and when knowledge fell short, or more serious illness took hold, the family physician or village healer would be called in for a consultation, and a treatment would be agreed upon. In those days we took personal responsibility for our health--we took steps to prevent illness and were more aware of our bodies and of changes in them. And when illness struck, we frequently had the personal means to remedy it. More often than not, the treatment could be found in the garden or the larder. In the middle of the twentieth century we began to change our outlook. The advent of modern medicine, together with its many miracles, also led to a much greater dependency on our physicians and to an increasingly stretched healthcare system. The growth of the pharmaceutical industry has meant that there are indeed "cures" for most symptoms, and we have become accustomed to putting our health in the hands of someone else, and to purchasing products that make us feel good. Somewhere along the line we began to believe that technology was in some way superior to what was natural, and so we willingly gave up control of even minor health problems. ↗

— Karen Sullivan

#health-care #medicine #natural-remedies #pharmeceutical-industry #physicians

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. ↗

— John Cameron

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