Quotes About Treatment

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

The insights provided by the model overturned the prevailing view that the virus was lying dormant in the body; in fact, it was in a raging battle with the immune system every minute of every day. With the new understanding that calculus helped provide, HIV infection has been transformed from a near-certain death sentence to a manageable chronic disease—at least for those with access to combination-drug therapy.

Treatments are very limited, and deinstitutionalization has resulted in increased homelessness and incarceration for this population. In many ways, deinstitutionalization is a crime against humanity: There is no other disease in which needed inpatient care is denied for political reasons.

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn't fit in with my Life Plan.

We do not hate the person but the crime they commit and our job was to treat them as humanely as possible so they had a chance of reforming.

There isn't just one way to get healthy and sober and to stop using.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.

My real problem isn't in my throat or kidneys. The doctor should have operated on my heart instead.

I already knew the incredible profits in chemotherapy, and how those profits led to an insidious push for that treatment: when patients suggested another approach, physicians could be condescending, dismissing alternatives as risky, unproven, even quackery.

What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older...

Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.

All too often, doctors end up giving antibiotics to their patients with colds. This is a fundamentally pointless treatment, because antibiotics work only on bacteria and are useless against viruses.

That most people with autism have some degree of SPD is a recognized fact. Understanding how sensory and motor problems complicate the child's daily life is crucial for designing an appropriate intervention program. Parents must ensure that their child's treatment program includes ample sensory-motor experiences and an individualized sensory diet.

In a conventional medical treatment, the patient follows a program prescribed by the physician, so that the responsibility for healing lies with the doctor.