"Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.”
“You are doing exactly what your father would have done.”
“God looks out for fools and babies.”

Source : Big Think interview, bigthink.com.
“I grew up always wanting to act, always knowing that's what I wanted to do.”

Source : "LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL Interview Pt. 1". Interview with Monika Bartyzel, collider.com. September 25, 2009.
“Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.”
“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”
“There is no story unless you've written it.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.273, Pan Macmillan
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”

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