Medicine
- Eugenio Espejo (1747–1795) - Physician, Journalist, Writer, Philosopher
- Alejo Lascano Bahamonde - Physician, surgeon
- Rodrigo Fierro Benítez - Physician, researcher, writer
- Germán Abad Valenzuela - Doctor-radiologist
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“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)
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)