Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Why should they help us?
Selfridge: [In the tech room, Selfridge putts a golf ball into a mug and laughs] You see that? Worker: Yes sir! Selfridge: No you didn't, you were looking at the monitor. I love this putter, Ronnie! I love this putter! Dr. Grace Augustine: Parker. Yo...
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Don't make me force-feed a cripple!
Dr. Grace Augustine: Don't play with that. You'll go blind.
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
