If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Patience is the best medicine.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.