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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

Barney Frank

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

Barney Frank

Medicine

State

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

John Fletcher

Medicine

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Paul Farmer

Medicine

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

William O. Douglas

Medicine

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Prince Charles

Balance

Medicine