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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian
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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
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With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.
Eric Topol
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HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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