Quotes About Medical

I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine - a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine - into a wearable in the form of a ski hat.

Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Every day, it has been estimated, between one and five of your cells turn cancerous, and your immune system captures and kills them.

The history of epilepsy can be summarised as 4,000 years of ignorance, superstition and stigma followed by 100 years of knowledge, superstition and stigma.

Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention. I sleep as if injected with a powerful experimental muscle relaxant.

Altogether, 80 percent of all autoimmune diseases occur in women. Hormones are the presumed culprit, but how exactly female hormones trip up the immune system when male hormones don't is not at all clear.

We are only beginning to understand the importance and nature of a woman's vaginal microbiome. Babies born by Cesarean section are robbed of this initial wash. The consequences for the baby can be profound. Various studies have found that people born by C-section have substantially increased risks for type 1 diabetes, asthma, celiac disease, and even obesity and an eightfold greater risk of developing allergies.

It has long been known that heart attacks are more common in the dead of night, and some authorities think the nightly change in blood pressure may somehow act as a trigger.

Candida albicans, the fungus behind thrush, until the 1950s was found only in the mouth and genitals, but now it sometimes invades the deeper body, where it can grow on the heart and other organs, like mold on fruit.

The prostate, it must be said, produces seminal fluid throughout a man's adulthood and anxiety in his later years.

The first pacemaker was about the size of a pack of cigarettes. Today's are no bigger than one American quarter and can last up to ten years.

Guinea worms grow up to a meter long inside the bodies of their victims, then escape by burrowing out of their skin. The only treatment, even now, is to speed the process of exit by winding the worms onto a stick as they emerge.

there are about seven thousand rare diseases—so many that about one person in seventeen in the developed world has one, which isn't very rare at all. But, sadly, so long as a disease affects only a small number of people, it is unlikely to get much research attention. For 90 percent of rare diseases, there are no treatments at all.

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Phineas Gage was packing dynamite into a rock and it exploded prematurely

Atul Gawande has written, "is getting clinicians like me to do the one thing that consistently halts the spread of infections: wash our hands.

Where America really differs from other countries is in the colossal costs of its health care.

The best possible medical care begins with self-care, which allows you to exert some control over your own well-being.

Let's face it—you don't find many Indian or Jewish cliques in prison (mostly because we're all in medical school. Haha).

What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we've made when it comes to our medical treatment?

The nurse jabbed the needle in, and I winced, savoring the tiny hurt.