760 Quotes About Disease

Once my medical center was aware that I was pursuing workers compensation for occupational disease, I found that they would no longer treat me. When I asked why, I was told that they do not accept workers compensation patients. It is one of the largest hospitals in Tucson, Arizona. I found myself in a medical no-man’s land where I could not get on-going treatment from my established medical center.

لقد أخطأ ( نيتشه ) كل الخطأ حين قال : إن الطبيب يجب ألا يحاول شفاء الذي لا يشفى ، و الطبيب الذي يسلم مقدما بعجزه عن تحطيم مثل ذلك الاعتقاد هو طبيب يتنصل من واجبات مهنته و يرفع راية الاستسلام قبل أن تبدأ المعركة ، فبالنسبة لعلم يتقدم كل يوم كالطب لا يليق أن يقال عن أي مرض : إنه غير قابل للشفاء ، و إنما الصواب أن يقال : إنه مرض لم يعرف له شفاء حتى الآن في نطاق معلوماتنا الحالية المحدودة

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Chairs are a functioning reprieve from the harsh realities of the world, and they often give us tickets to see it in all its beauty and problems, because no one place is perfect - but it is nice to be in places that come close.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body's oxygen cycle.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.