"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"
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"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices."
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"He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."
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"Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business."
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"Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance."
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"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."
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"For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15)."
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"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."
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"Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors."
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"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."
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"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
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"Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions."
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"The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine."
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"Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage."
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"Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma."
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"First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture."
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"The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment."
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"Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics."
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"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
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"I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact."
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