Quotes of: Medication Keyword

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life...

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and...

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

Spock: [on intercom] Dr Puri, report. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: It's McCoy. Dr. Puri was on Deck 6. He's dead. Spock: Then you have just inherited his responsibility as Chief Medical Officer. [McCoy looks at a burning medical room full of casualties fro...

Star Trek

[Logan has found his way to the Professor's office] Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I'm Charles Xavier. Would you like some breakfast? Logan: Where am I? Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Westchester, New York. My people brought you here for medical attent...

X-Men

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

Chris Toumazou

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Margaret Heffernan

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Margaret Sanger

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

Robert Jarvik

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Stella Young

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Daniel Nathans

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Betty Hill

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

John Paul Stevens

Medication can help us live a happier life.

Carnie Wilson

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

Barry Ritholtz

..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes of terror and confusion I felt standing powerless in her room served as a visceral reminder througho...

Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lu...

How to Be Good

Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great potential for providing medical insights? One reason is surely the pervasive neglect of this branch of s...

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or t...

Three Weddings and a Kiss

In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in i...

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