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"But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of."
"I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984."
"Medicines are only fit for old people."
"At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler."
"He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato."
"I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?"
"Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?"
"I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields."
"Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."
"Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs."
"Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health."
"I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go."
"I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow."
"(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions."
"I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most."
"Los Angeles residents are going to vote on a tax on anything sold in a medical marijuana dispensary. If the measure passes the city could be solvent within 45 minutes."
"Obama was heckled by someone who said, 'Don't forget about medical marijuana.' The Secret Service has narrowed the suspects down to everyone in L.A."
"(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me."
"In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill."
"Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms."
