I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.
In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.
Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.
People need medicine and they need therapists.
Throughout our history we have been tireless advocates for expanding access to high-quality, affordable medicine. This is especially true in the area of HIV/AIDS.
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
