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:
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)