"If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients."

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Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Medicine Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.”
“It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.”
“I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.”
“the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.”
“When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.”
“I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.”

Source : U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 110, Issues 5, p. 32, February 11, 1991.
“You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.”

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