Quotes About Treatment

Ponder this: From 1983 to 2008, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased sevenfold, from 35 to 240 million. In just three years, from 2008 to 2011, we added another 110 million diabetics to our global population. Shouldn't the main question we ask be why is this happening? instead of what new drug can we find to treat it?

The shift of the mentally ill into prisons, from previous treatment in psychiatric institutions (already inadequate in many ways) is just one example of this social care through penal confinement at work in the U.S.A. today.

Correctional officers, who lack resources for caring for the elderly, are also systematically hostile to providing medical treatment of prisoners, even though "the graying of the prison population has become a national epidemic afflicting states around the country—from California to Missouri to Florida.

The treatment of fundamentalism may be said to have succeeded; the patient survived. But at least for the life of the mind, what survived was a patient horribly disfigured by the cure itself.

fact that participants in different conditions receive different levels of the independent variable, all participants in the various experimental conditions should be treated in precisely the same way. The only thing that may differ between the conditions is the independent variable. Only when this is so can we conclude that changes in the dependent variable were caused by manipulation of the independent variable.

Cortisone is good shit.

Closing the asylums has not brought us any closer to working out how we should respond to mental illness. We still prefer to think that out of mind should mean out of sight.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

She needs open-heart surgery, and they should go in through her feet.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

You are only hurting yourself if you are being rude and unkind; it might not come back to you immediately or in the way you dished it out; but when it boomerangs back at you, it surely comes back in it's own different shape and sizes. Treat people the way you want to be treated. This is the only most important lesson in life, primarily to that; loving God, all the rest is just commentary.