Quotes About Medical

I have never associated myself with such an unexpected part of the body as the thyroid

The Crimean War earned the distinction of being the first time in British history that a medical corps was accused of negligence.

This baby will never get a residence permit. It will be one of those 'Black Children' who are born without permission and banned from getting free schooling and medical treatment. When it grows up, it won't even be able to marry and it'll curse us for condemning it to a life s an outcast.

I left a pause. 'You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.' 'I should not like to be in the hands of a surgeon who did not take that view.

The state medical examiner completed an analysis of the jawbone and concluded that it came from a possum. This was given to the press.

Focused ultrasound is a new, revolutionary, groundbreaking, non-invasive therapeutic technology that has the potential to transform the treatment of a variety of serious medical disorders in addition to brain tumors, improve outcomes, and decrease the cost of care. It could become an alternative to, or complement for, traditional surgery, radiation therapy, and drug delivery.

This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 22,000 women with uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease, arthritis, and hypertension are inching forward at over 225 research sites around the world.

of a man with prostate cancer undergoing focused ultrasound therapy

This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 36,000 women with uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas, and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease and arthritis, are inching forward at over 270 research sites around the world.

But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hen's egg.

It takes about an hour to kill all of the tumor that can be seen on the MR. At the completion of the procedure, another MR scan is performed to confirm

Focused ultrasound is a new, revolutionary, groundbreaking, non-invasive therapeutic technology that has the potential to transform the treatment of a variety of serious medical disorders in addition to brain tumors, improve

Burr holes are made in the skull, and a power saw is used to fashion a bone flap more or less like the top of a cookie jar (fig. 2). The dura mater—a membrane

His head is securely fixed in a hemispheric focused ultrasound brain transducer (fig. 2). The transducer is capable of transmitting more than 1,000 intersecting beams of ultrasound energy through the scalp and skull to the tumor with a high degree of accuracy and without damaging the

Paul is rolled into the operating room and put to sleep with general anesthesia.

Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.

Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,780 nurses, 1,654 were dead or too badly hurt to work. In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred.

To sell war bonds, they had already organized nearly the entire city, all the way down to the level of each block, making each residential block the responsibility of "a logical leader no matter what her nationality"—i.e., an Irishwoman in an Irish neighborhood, an African American woman in an African American neighborhood, and so on. They intended to use that same organization now to distribute everything from medical care to food.

Thomsonism was the most popular layman's medical movement but hardly the only one. Dozens of what can only be called sects arose across the countryside. A Thomsonian rhyme summed up the attitude: "The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the

From that position he pushed for national medical insurance, which the medical profession then advocated, and in 1916 he became president of the American Medical Association. In his presidential address he declared, "There are unmistakable signs that health insurance will constitute the next great step in social legislation.

Capps's article appeared in the August 10, 1918, issue of JAMA.

Between June 1 and August 1, 200,825 British soldiers in France, out of two million, were hit hard enough that they could not report for duty even in the midst of desperate combat. Then the disease was gone. On August 10, the British command declared the epidemic over. In Britain itself on August 20, a medical journal stated that the influenza epidemic "has completely disappeared.

The revolution of modern science and especially medical science began as science not only focused on this answer to "What can I know?" but more important, changed its method of inquiry, changed its answer to "How can I know it?

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.