Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-malefi...
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who ...
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
