I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early ’60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn’t have any procedures.
The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
I’m by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I’ve seen it save a lot of people’s lives.