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Quote of the Day: on Medicine and Politics


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
Tags: law, medicine, politics, poverty, sociology
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