Everybody who’s a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10. – Bill Nye
If you’re so pro-life, do me a favour: don’t lock arms and block medical clinics. If you’re so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. – Bill Hicks
At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. – Aimee Mullins
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. – Bob McDonnell
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them. – Craig Venter
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. – Andrew Weil
Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities. – Anne Wojcicki
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. – Chuck Schumer
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation. – Chesley Sullenberger
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm. – Barbara Mikulski
I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That’s what I think. I think I’m going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that. – Craig Sager
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone’s information is out there, it’s part of the collective. – Craig Venter
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. – Abe Lemons
I like the values associated with a medical family – common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. – Alain de Botton
I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It’s flexible. – Barbara Hambly
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear. – Bill Gates
My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most. – Ann McLane Kuster
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. – Ambrose Bierce
In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows. – Baruj Benacerraf
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to. – Ben Carson
Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. – Anthony Principi
While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented. – Baruj Benacerraf
I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I’m on tour, it really feels like I’m being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom. – Amanda Palmer
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. – Alice Hamilton
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it – the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism. – Abraham Verghese
FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care. – Anne Wojcicki
Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don’t have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. – Claire McCaskill