A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.
When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.
Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.
No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.
What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I'm at school?
My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.
