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Medical Profession Quotes

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Jack Kevorkian
Responsibility, Trying, Medical Profession
" 'Dr Death' Jack Kevorkian, advocate of assisted suicide, dies in hospital" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Marcia Angell
Suffering, Medical Profession, Life Is
"May Doctors Help You to Die?". www.nybooks.com. October 11, 2012.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Samuel Hopkins Adams
Law, Physicians, Medical Profession
The Health Master Ch. 1

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Eric Topol
Medical Profession, Medical, Profession

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale
Mind, Medical Profession, Doctrine

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

Ambrose Bierce
Science, Medical Profession, Humour
Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.663, Library of America

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

Lionel Shriver
Agony, Might, Medical Profession
Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

Charles Jencks
Hate, Medical Profession, Teeth

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