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Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior. ↗

— Atul Gawande

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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. ↗

— Thomas Tusser

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The medicine increases the disease. ↗

— Virgil

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ↗

— Voltaire

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I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

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Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked. ↗

— Venus Williams

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One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

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