Quotes About Treatment

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!

I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right.

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.

How you treat me is your karma. How I react is mine.

Does psychiatrists' ability to prescribe drugs give them an advantage over psychologists in places where psychologists cannot prescribe them? Not always. Drugs can be useful, but relying entirely on them can be a mistake. Whereas a typical visit to a clinical psychologist includes an extensive discussion of the issues troubling the client, many visits to a psychiatrist are briefer sessions that focus on checking the effectiveness of a drug and evaluating its side effects.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

We treat illness with resentment as though it is a total betrayal, and our bodies become an enemy. Old age is seen as something that happens to other people, and death is treated like rumour that may or may not be true.

The dislike of her was general. I wonder now about the treatment of psychiatric and other patients who release, as if it were a chemical, an invitation to be disliked and who therefore have to fight (inducing further dislike and antagonism) for sympathy and fairness.

Since self-esteem is based most importantly on the amount of respectful, accepting and concerned treatment from significant others, it is logical to assume that the inconsistency of the presence of these conditions in an alcoholic home would negatively influence one's ability to feel good about him or herself. Interestingly enough, a variable such as the age of the subject was insignificant as a determinant of self-esteem.6

It must be difficult to treat Mr. Spock when he's ill." "You're right. The combination of human and Vulcan makes it tricky. You should hear Dr. McCoy on the subject; you'd think Mr. Spock's physiology was devised simply to torment him.

The reason blacks and whites do not enjoy similar outcomes despite similar treatment by society is that the black and white populations are not equivalent. Although I expressed myself as gently and sympathetically as possible, my conclusion was that black outcomes reflect black behavior rather than oppression by whites. A

To make matters worse, they are often further traumatized by their present circumstances (for example, prisoners are raped, street people are attacked, mental health patients may experience helplessness during forms of treatment perceived as violent, and so on).

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.