Medicine
- James Andrews, nationally renowned orthopedic specialist
- Alan Heldman, interventional cardiologist and pioneer of the drug eluting stent
- John W. Kirklin, pioneering heart surgeon
- Albert Pacifico, renowned heart surgeon
- Michael Saag, prominent AIDS researcher
- Luther Leonidas Terry, Surgeon General of the United States
- Tinsley Harrison, editor of first five editions of Harrison's Principals of Internal Medicine and dean of UAB School of Medicine
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it’s long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)