Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.
Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.
Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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.
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
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.
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consc...
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.
FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.
