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I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor. — Alistair Brownlee

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything. — Ben Carson

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. — Samuel Wilson

There are some remedies worse than the disease. — Publilius Syrus

The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces. — Herbert Ratner

When speaking of the mighty Andes and the so-called "eyebrows" country at the range's eastern base - the Tropical Wet Forest region - I am first obliged to give homage to the Apu, the Mountain Lords, the ice-capped everlasting sovereigns of these great lands, on whose forested slopes manifests the most marvelous biological diversity. — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Rainforest...

Attacks characterized by little more than malaise are likely to be regarded as mild viral illnesses. Attacks characterized by alteration of affect and consciousness - mild drowsiness or depression - may be taken for purely emotional reactions. Both — Oliver Sacks Migraine

By what warrant, therefore, is such an attack to be termed an extended epilepsy rather than a quite brief and severe, let us say, a condensed migraine? — Oliver Sacks Migraine

We rationalize, we dissimulate, we pretend: we pretend that modern medicine is a rational science, all facts, no nonsense, and just what it seems. But we have only to tap its glossy veneer for it to split wide open, and reveal to us its roots and foundations, its old dark heart of metaphysics, mysticism, magic, and myth. Medicine is the oldest of the arts, and the oldest of the sciences: would one not expect it to spring from the deepest knowledge and feelings we have? — Oliver Sacks Awakenings

So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn:Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen...

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

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