#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

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#vaccination #forgiveness

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election! ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#election #end #kill #medicine #must

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#going #lived #long #long time #look

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. ↗

— John H. Tobe

#drugs #economy #healing #medicine #money

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. ↗

— David Riesman

#fullest #get #lives #medicine #our lives

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#i #into #loved #medicine #would

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#amino #body #called #chemical #correct

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

#business #dentistry #distinct #engineering #ethics

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#art #exercise #learned #medicine #only