Quotes About Medical

John Cade's article about the use of lithium in acute mania first appeared in 1949, in an obscure Australian medical journal

How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days? There was no going back.

I'm watching an operation, I told her. It's to do with the pancreas. It's amazing, Madame. The surgeon is removing something called the tail. It's a complex and delicate operation, but the surgeon makes it look so easy. He's using all sorts of tools and he's so quick and precise. But what I keep wondering is, could Artificial Friends learn to do things like this themselves?

Josie often had to go for medical examinations, I said. They took samples of her blood and other things. Josie never liked those examinations. They hurt her. Do you think there could be a way of making those examinations nice for her?

Josie suffers from a very rare disease, he said. It's caused by a genetic mutation. But the good news is that researchers are working on a gene therapy that could correct the mutation. It's still in the experimental stage, but there's a good chance it'll work. If it does, Josie could be cured. And I wondered, as I often did these days, whether Artificial Friends could help with such work.

Headache, hmm? His expression went serious. Do you know what's the best cure for that? What? Orgasm. He said it so matter-of-factly I had to sputter a laugh. Multiple, if possible, he continued. It's a proven medical fact that one physiologic event, like orgasm, can cancel out the effects of another physiological process, such as a headache. His expression was perfectly serious, but I said, You're full of shit. Perhaps. If so, you should call my bluff. Just open the door and we'll test it out.

One drawback to living in a medical research town is that they're paranoid about health, both physical and mental. The adults get off easy. Not the kids. Sneeze twice in a row and the teacher calls the school nurse. Drop out of a sport or let your grades fall and you're whisked off to Dr. Fodor's couch. They especially monitor the teens, as if hormonal surges could make us spontaneously combust at any moment.

We had to get him to a doctor and, until then, I could only presume it was heart failure and perform CPR if he stopped breathing. I unbuttoned the mayor's shirt. When Nicole inched forward, the pilot snapped at her, and Corey told him to go to hell, which really didn't help matters.

Addison's disease and colitis. Twice a day the doctors shot him up with a

The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit.

Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

Well, the test was negative," he said, then described the procedure, explaining that in clonus the alternate flexing and releasing of the foot would have triggered a run of clonic contractions. But as he sat at his desk, Klein still seemed worried. "Has she ever had a fall?" he asked.

To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they're dying all at once." John

All the medical examiners in the state of Florida are forensic pathologists with medical degrees.

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover, and prove an ass.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

The most beautiful words in the English language are not "I love you," but "It's benign."

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Our best medical journals are now brimming with high-profile, rigorous studies that show a stunning correlation between high blood sugar and risk for dementia.

he gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at a London hospital in 1887, noting, "If the patient can be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.

the "normal range" have a much greater risk for brain