Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.
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Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way.
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.
Very few people meet their soulmates at age six. So you gotta pass the time somehow. And Ingrid was very - patient. Overly patient. Willing to put up with odd behavior, in the hope that someday I would shape up and marry her martyred ass. And when somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.
I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in learning the special language of a scholarly order, I was amassing a kind of force. This was the pure and noble side of the world, uncorrupted by secrets and trickery. How extraordinary that a word could serve as a shorthand for an elaborate tale of disease.
What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
There is no short cut, nor 'royal road,' to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.
outgrew the media ... The negativity felt like a disease.
It's something Wayne's going to have to determine with the doctors. He's going to have to make a decision on what he wants to do. It's always the player's decision at the end of the day. The medical people can advise people. Wayne's at the point of his career where he's going to take a long hard look at what he wants to do.
Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.
I am now going to Jakarta to pressure people there to make donations. Please be patient. Help has come. Please realize that this disaster is too heavy for the local government to carry alone.
Not that much to pay if you want to see how a disease affects a mammal or how a drug is going to work.
We don't think he fully realizes how much his proposed legislation will hurt older Americans who depend so much on medical equipment and services.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
One of the first places that they flew me to after the hurricane was San Antonio. I was separated from my wife, and I was looking for her. It just so happened that my stepson and my grandson were in the same place getting their medicine. And they were looking for me and told me that my wife was in Plano, safe.
We've said from the start that there was no doctor shopping, but Mr. Limbaugh should not have to give up his right to doctor-patient confidentiality to prove his innocence. The medical records that the State has seized and reviewed now for nearly six months show that Mr. Limbaugh received legitimate medical treatment for legitimate medical reasons.
This is good news, because many of the past studies of the effect of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular events looked only at men, so physicians were reluctant to prescribe aspirin for women because there was little data.
It is a disease that occurs at the interface of genes and environment.
We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.
Approximately 1.3 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer this year. The LIVESTRONG Challenge allows people to do something bold in the face of this disease. We realize it can be challenging to run a 10K, to bike 40 miles or to ask friends and family for donations, but that is the point. We want participants to challenge themselves and their friends and families to make a difference for cancer survivors. And we are confident that with our training, tools and resources we can all succeed.
This just threw the healthcare industry for a loop. The state and local health departments had to regroup.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
He was taken by his wife to a neurologist in February 1997 with profound memory loss, ... Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease. If it was bad enough in 1997 that she took him to see a neurologist, imagine how bad it is now.
I keep telling myself to be more patient, but it's something missing that I'm not quite seeing. My eyes are going all over the place. I've got to slow it down. I try to read something, and I go way too fast to even read it. I'm running by my reads, basically, so I've got to slow down and be patient. Patient is the word.
I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
There is no evidence of direct harm to patients, but the potential was there for lethal harm to patients and we are taking the strongest action to deal with the problem,
This is trying to assure that self-pay patients, particularly of modest or lesser means, aren't going to be disadvantaged because they don't have insurance companies to represent them,
Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.
It has shone upon thee, light has arisen, darkness has departed from thee. We remove from thee death, destruction, and disease.
It was a mess at first. But the people were unbelievable. They waited, they were patient, they didn't leave.
This is a very strong association of survival with taking aspirin in the days leading up to surgery, ... The study further confirms aspirin's benefits for patients with known cardiovascular disease. It also shows there is no increased risk of bleeding, wh
Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
This allows us to expand and provide critical care capability, which will give us rapid transport for any trauma or emergency injury patients.
We are experiencing the same kinds of problems that are no different from those faced by most other hospitals in the country. Hospitals are losing money because we are receiving lower state and federal reimbursements for patient treatments and are having more uninsured and under-insured patients using emergency rooms as their primary care physicians.
Through this program we aspire to give youth a comprehensive picture of the magnitude of this crisis and to provide a forum in which this disease can be discussed frankly, openly and honestly, ... We hope this forms a basis of a pro-active youth response to the crisis.
It's the disabling of the disease that can harm (the partner). Having a spouse with cancer doesn't really increase my risk of death.
The new label design makes it easier for doctors to get access to important information about drug safety and benefits, and this in turn will help them have more meaningful discussions with their patients. This redesigned label is a big step in our commitment to giving health professionals the tools and information they need to optimize their clinical practice and choose among a growing number of effective treatments to make more personalized prescribing decisions for their patients.
If there is a medical need or a transportation need, we want to know before the storm, not after, ... That way we can get people to safety. That is why we are going to have a very active campaign to sign up those with special medical needs.
All we are saying is that people should not eat chickens that show signs of disease. We advise that chickens should be cooked above 70 degrees Celsius to kill all germs that may be lurking in the meat, including flu.
As our system becomes less stable because we must now begin to understand that Crime, Disease, Poverty and Malnutrition are but natural components parts of our per-technological social structure.
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeles