The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone
Abraham VergheseTags: medicine twins cutting-for-stone
Seeing modern health care from the other side, I can say that it is clearly not set up for the patient. It is frequently a poor arrangement for doctors as well, but that does not mitigate how little the system accounts for the patient's best interest. Just when you are at your weakest and least able to make all the phone calls, traverse the maze of insurance, and plead for health-care referrals is that one time when you have to your life may depend on it.
Ross I. DonaldsonTags: health medicine sickness health-care insurance health-care-system
...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.
Michelle AuYou cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
Richard SelzerTags: science passion spirit medicine doctor medical pathology
Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an amount would be necessary to kill you.and it's natural.Calling something NATURAL is a MEANINGLESS MARKETING PLOY."
"All right,calm down! Maybe I like alternative medicine because it's been in use for more than six thousand years.After all that time,they have to know what they're doing."
"You mean the wacky idea that somehow in the distant past people had more scientific wisdom than they do today?That's both crazy and counterintuitive.Six thousand years ago people thought thunder was a bunch of gods moving around furniture."
-Conversation btw Dr.Jack Stapleton and Vinnie
Tags: science natural medicine alternative-medicne otc
Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.
Richard DiazTags: medicine sick golden-goose
I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.
Julia SeranoTags: medicine respect transgender transsexual
One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.
Diana GabaldonTags: war medicine outlander claire-fraser
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
Leo TolstoyThe conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases that ravaged pre-agricultural people (something we hear often) is like arguing that seat belts and air bags protect us from car crashes that were fatal to our prehistoric ancestors.
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