Top 1200 Medical Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

Children who attend high-quality early care and education programs before kindergarten perform better on assessments of reading and math skills and socio-emotional development. However, since early care and education programs are so expensive, low-income families face significant barriers.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

What ends up getting this Stephen Lerner guy in the mind-set that he's in is his sense of entitlement. So he wants a college education. He wants it, he should have it. It shouldn't cost him anything. And the people who provide it certainly shouldn't be getting rich because a college education he thinks is an entitlement.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

To ensure that Singaporeans can take advantage of opportunities, the government should continue to monitor carefully the proportion of foreign students in our education institutions to ensure that the proportion matches the present and future needs of the country, and the Singaporeans are the main beneficiaries of our education policy.

You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.

Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits.

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.

My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

I see encouraging signs of democracy developing in other places in the Middle East. In Tunisia, in Iraq, and now in Egypt. Tunisia is the one Muslim country that does something for girls and education. As far as I know, this is the only Muslim country where this is true. There is compulsory education for girls from the age of 5.

Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

Some alternative medicines work when the instructions are followed. But I always recommend seeing a medical professional.

I can confirm that following specialist medical advice I am having to retire from playing professional football.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.