Quote of the Day: on Medicine and Politics

[liveonearth]

Medicine is a social science,
and politics is nothing more than medicine on a large scale.
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor,
and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
~ Rudolph Virchow

Comments

[neptunia67.livejournal.com]

Heh.

What's with the green bunny?

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

?? Dunno. I did an image search for medicine & politics and it came up....and I like it. =-]

[neptunia67.livejournal.com]

Well. I think he's pretty cool.

is that?...

[beauregard45.livejournal.com]

Is that the same dude regarding Virchow's Triad? Some synapse from nsg school fired on that one.

Virchow's triad Three factors leading to thrombosis: stasis, hypercoagulability and intimal change

doh!...

Re: is that?...

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Hell YEAH! There are other things named for Virchow, he musta been quite a go getter doc.