Quotes About Healthcare

But that spring Washington had ordered an end to the hormonal injections when they were linked to cancer in laboratory animals. Instead, the Relfs later learned, their daughters were sterilized.

Shortly after Dave was diagnosed with leish, Tom Weinberg learned from the CDC that he, too, had the disease. Chris Fisher, Mark Adams, and Juan Carlos Fernández went to the NIH and were also diagnosed with it. All were treated except Juan Carlos; Dr. Nash recognized that his immune system appeared to be fighting it off and decided to delay treatment. It was the right decision, and Juan Carlos ended up leish-free without going through the rigors of amphotericin B.

Because amphotericin is expensive and not available in Honduras, the Honduran members of the expedition were being treated with an older drug, a pentavalent antimonial compound.

There is an old French curse: may your fondest wish come true. If this treatment is cheap and available to everyone, it will destroy the earth through overpopulation. If it is dear and available only to the very rich, it will cause riots, wars, a breakdown of the social contract. Either way, it will lead directly to human misery. What is the value of a long life, when it is lived in squalor and unhappiness?

Every one made such a fuss over things nowadays! They wanted injections before they had teeth pulled -they took drugs if they couldn't sleep-they wanted easy chairs and cushions and the girls allowed their figures to slop about anyhow and lay about half naked on the beaches in summer.

Well, medicine was mostly faith-healing when it came to it. And he had a good manner - he could inspire hope and belief.

Oh, doctors!" Inspector Slack looked contemptuous. "If you're going to believe doctors. Take out all your teeth—that's what they do nowadays—and then say they're very sorry, but all the time it was appendicitis. Doctors!

I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day—and cod liver oil forced down babies' throats whether they like it or not—such nasty-smelling stuff.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Don't screen unless you can do something for those patients discovered early that would produce an overall benefit to their lives. Otherwise, cease and desist.

Health and hygiene are a basic personal need for all.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

That's one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry - they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

The amount I have cost the NHS for maternity services is phenomenal.

I've seen phenomenal work in Leicester where people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease use telecare to measure their own oxygen levels, and if they need to change their meds they get a phonecall from a nurse who has seen the results of their readings.

My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.

A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen.