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If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.
Oct 2, 2025
The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.
We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
We must also ensure that we have the best medical care, education, and support for our military service members and their families, both when they serve and when they return to civilian life.
The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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