Medicine
- Dr George Newman is appointed as the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England and Wales.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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)
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)