“When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.” KnowsWeekDiseaseSoapJeopardy Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.” IfsYearsWellsHas BeensDoneMightEyeUniverseSleepForgetAttentionBreakWeekCenturyThousandDiseaseGratefulCreditAdvertisingHis EyesThousand YearsRapturePulpitNever SleepWorking For God Author:Mark Twain
“We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.” DifferentWeekMiddleTypeDiseaseSixShootingFlu Author:Johnny Vegas
“My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.” YearsHeartLongPastMotherOrderFourWeekDiseaseMajorsDaughterCandidatesMy DaughterSurgeryLong LifeThirteenReplacementsHeart DiseaseHeart Surgery Author:Nick Cassavetes
“All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.” YearsSometimesSufferingCoursesProcessEffortTakenWeekMonthsPeriodsDiseaseDecayRemedyNursingUnnoticedPoisoning Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not