Quotes About Treatment

He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.

The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.

Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

Some people can't even breathe when they get polio," said Junior. "They have to lay in an iron lung with nothing but their head sticking out. It's like a big barrel that does the breathing for them.

What did she love Shelley for? His reckless spontaneity -- like this. His helpless generous nature -- like this. His treatment of her as a reasonable human being and not a trembling little rose -- and so on. If she loved him for these things, could she hate him for them? Could she?

Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

Never kill a German," Leslie told them a few days later. "Put him in the hospital for six months instead. He's more bother to his commander alive than dead. A wounded soldier has to be looked after. A dead soldier is buried and forgotten.

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

We have learned a lot about how to treat Ebola, how to ensure that the people caring for people with Ebola do so minimizing their risk of infection.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Given where medicine is today, there may not be any traditional injuries that aren't repairable.

It is crucial to have an injury seen to quickly.

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

Insulin is a crisis medication.

I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.

Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

when he smiled, of course, he looked so young . . . No wonder she was getting this under-the-eyelashes treatment, she decided; the bastard was probably a Scorpio, trying to take her prisoner. She gave him the rest of her coffee.

For fifteen thousand dollars, the psychiatrist has relieved me of what I had: fifteen thousand dollars...

the course of treatment and the scope of the method of treatment employed.

A veces el Estado, con el pretexto de ayudar a los inválidos, termina por tratarlos como si fuesen inválidos.

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.