Quotes About Treatment

Another way to view it: the iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor.

It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don't know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention.

the iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor.

It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don't know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention. We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

Whenever possible, replace the doctor with human antifragility. But otherwise don't be shy with aggressive treatments.

it looks like this is because of overmedication and excessive medical care.

I did not feel ill, Symmache; now I do (after your ministrations)." (Non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo).

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure.

Apparently Quinn had woken up a short time ago and immediately asked for ice cream, knowing that kids in hospitals got whatever they wanted.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor people left over to experiment upon.

the indigenous arsenal of cure.

In the Disney version, Smith returns to England after a bad colonist shoots him in the shoulder. In truth, he did leave Virginia in 1609 for medical treatment, but only because he somehow blew up a bag of gunpowder while wearing it around his neck.

So, a little morphine, a good sweat, and a bowel movement—the cure for everything that ails you.

To understand the true impact of a treatment, we need to know the "counterfactual," which is what would have happened in the absence of that treatment or intervention.

The purpose of any program evaluation is to provide some kind of counterfactual against which a treatment or intervention can be measured.

these cases, the goal is to find two groups of subjects who are broadly similar except for the application of whatever "treatment" we care about.

I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might consider that crass treatment of a guest. I nod. "Well, some people got no sense of humor, do they? "I am one of those people.

I would apologize to the devil if you treated him as you treat Nicola.

I don't know who thought up waxing, but it was clearly the same person who invented Vicodin.

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with everyday herbs.

I went on Accutane, which is very strong. Your sebaceous glands dry up, you can't exercise, and you have very dry lips. But it was a miracle, and it worked.

Ive got Parkinsons disease, I am always going to have Parkinsons disease unless they find a miracle cure, Ive got to deal with this the best I can.

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.