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My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she wa

My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. – Marilyn Hacker

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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. – Marilyn Hacker

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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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The physicians highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed. – Samuel Hahnemann

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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didnt, in reality, do what they did on TV. – Benjamin Carson

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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him Doctor. – Abe Lemons

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Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. – Anthony Principi

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