#medicine

Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#science

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary. ↗

— Peter Agre

#clinical #develop #felt #goal #i

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

#inspirational #medicine #student-accountability #attitude

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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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

#belly #best #highlights #i #laughing

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

— Samuel Wilson

#biggest challenges #challenges #incorporation #information #information technology

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aggression #aspect #behavior #difficult #had

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. ↗

— Vance Havner

#bottle #ever #god #his #medicine

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. ↗

— Brad Henry

#between #child #choose #constant #constant fear