Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.
We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
