Quotes About Medical

It was deeply ironic that Rockefeller retained such residual faith in homeopathy even as he financed the world's most sophisticated medical-research operation.

Henry explained his experiment on the submarine, using the variolation procedure.

That fact was not acknowledged by government officials until nearly a month later; instead, authorities instructed the medical staff not to wear masks or gowns because they might give rise to panic.

The second surprise was hypercoagulability—a pronounced tendency to develop blood clots.

cerebral contusion, contusio cerebri, in fact two, both coup and contre

You have a cerebral contusion, in Latin contusio cerebri, in fact technically two, both coup and contre

Polish prisoner Dr. Wladislaw Dering performed castrations and ovariectomies ordered by his German masters as part of their insane program to find a way to sterilize the entire Jewish race.

I was afraid they kept the hogs in a pen out behind the hospital. I've been prepared for surgery and the doctor says to an orderly, 'Leon, go out to the hog pen and get me a valve.

TIAs?" Crane said. "How extensive?" "Partial paralysis, slurred speech, lasting in each case less than two hours." "What were their ages?" "Late twenties and early thirties." "Really?" Crane frowned. "That seems awfully young for a stroke. Two strokes, at that. You did neurological workups?

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

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

Medical Science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

Inoltre le piaceva guardare la faccia della gente che doveva fare l'esame del sangue, a digiuno. Sembra gente a cui hanno rubato qualcosa, disse.

I think this bandage is not needed," said Mma Ramotswe, bending down to remove it. "Hospitals feel they have to put a bandage on anybody who goes there—just in case. Sometimes you get a bandage even if you are just visiting somebody.

And when they are out in public, we are secretly looking at people's arms to determine where we would start an IV, an Arizona nurse said. Sometimes if I'm out with a group of nurses, we're like, 'Wow, look at those veins. I could hit those from across the room.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Accurate data on shark attacks on World War II servicemen may never be known since medical records did not note them. In fact, the navy was sufficiently concerned about loss of morale that it discouraged public mention of the menace.

Technology was supposed to bring the latest fiber-optic cables into every house in Celebration. It promised a computerized community network that would let any resident pull up his or her medical records at the hospital, monitor his or her child's network at school and communicate with teachers and administrators, or simply chat with neighbors or order carry out from one of the restaurants.

Intersex is the natural phenomenon known to the medical profession for centuries but necessarily obscure to everyone else. It is the fact that a small percentile of human beings are born either with ambiguous genitalia or turn out to have other biological attributes (for instance an unusually large clitoris, or an unusually small penis) which suggest that they may lie somewhere between the sexes.

Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

Seven hundred thousand people in our society (and their families) who will experience stroke this year. (p.xiv)