Quotes About Treatment

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

An early remedy for malaria called for tossing the sufferer, Br'er Rabbit-style, into a prickly bush; in his hasty retreat, went the thinking, he might leave the fever behind. Orally-administered cobwebs were also deemed effective.

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

I've had some not-great experiences with laser hair removal, probably because I haven't done what they told me.

It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do.

Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?

In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don't go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn't happen.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it's easy for people to be like, 'What have you got to be sad about?' But it's not that; it's a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes needs to be treated.

I had that C.difficile hospital bug that everyone is going on about. It was an experience. There's not much they can do. They just let you get on with it. It's a breakdown of the whole immune system.

I wish I could do more in Flint but they estimated the amount that it would cost to fix Flint and it would be a little over $1 billion and I'm definitely not a billionaire. It's extremely heartbreaking the way the city is being treated in my opinion.

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

Not even when it had my name did I really think about what it would be like to pass days and months and years in those boxes, to be on the other side of the treatment,