#medical

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#cents #dollars #equals #human #room

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo. ↗

— Michael Steele

#breakthroughs #cell #cell research #destroy #destroying

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology. ↗

— John Sununu

#address #ago #current #designed #evolved

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records. ↗

— Lois Capps

#example #for example #i #importance #know

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. ↗

— Iris Chang

#books #changing #comfort #coming #experiments

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. ↗

— Chris Christie

#another #benefit #benefits #care #career

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#bearing #been #forward #go #history

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

#doctors #ever #exquisite #form #hypocrites

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. ↗

— Leon Kass

#benefits #biomedical #clear #hazards #less

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anything #central #dilemma #doctors #drive