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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“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)