Quotes About Treatment

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

My hair is too fine to bleach. I get so much breakage, it's not worth it to dye it.

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.

Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because they would lose too much money!

You know how people put toothpaste on breakouts? Same with Vegemite. I've done it before, and it works.

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.

We know we can prevent heart attacks with aspirin, and with drugs called beta-blockers. We know that certain. Lange

While the elective use of angioplasty and stents has skyrocketed over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been no change in the rate of heart attacks. Lange

Dr Leila Kheirandish-Gozal puts it this way: 'Just imagine, someone says to your child "wake up! wake up! wake up!" five times an hour. That's what happens in sleep apnoea, every time an apnoea happens. Every night a child is not treated, is a very big problem

Anyone who protested the callous treatment of the Arabs and others was dismissed or ignored as naïve.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

Love him she might, but she was not foolish or degraded enough to want to resume a relationship in which she had been treated with such contempt.

Rawson has an idea of what it is like to eat without perceiving tastes, because she has talked to cancer patients whose taste receptors have been destroyed by radiation treatments. The situation is well beyond unpleasant. "Your body is saying, 'It's not food, it's cardboard,' and it won't let you swallow. No matter how much you tell your brain that you need to eat to survive, you'll gag. These people can actually die of starvation.

she has talked to cancer patients whose taste receptors have been destroyed by radiation treatments. The situation is well beyond unpleasant. "Your body is saying, 'It's not food, it's cardboard,' and it won't let you swallow. No matter how much you tell your brain that you need to eat to survive, you'll gag. These people can actually die of starvation.

It wasn't until about 1920, he added, that "the average patient with the average illness seeing the average physician came off better for the encounter.