Quotes about Medical

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn't figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point.

I got married when I was a first-year medical student and my husband was pursuing Nephrology in the same college.

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and Practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

The good news is that there is a guide, a kind of medical advocate, an inner compass—and it resides within each of us.

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

The emotional states associated with the heart include some that every life would benefit from: Empathy, which makes us feel what someone else is feeling Compassion, which motivates us to extend lovingkindness Forgiveness, which wipes the slate clean of old grievances and wounding Sacrifice, which allows us to put someone else's good above our own Devotion, which inspires reverence for higher values None of these states is a term in cardiology, yet they have medical consequences

We've got the right to vote, but what does it mean? People now want to have the right to a job, the right to education, the right to medical services.

You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution.