“The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.” PeopleIfsCountryCareAmericaFormPoorTruth IsMajorityTiredMedicalIncomeRelyNurseStaffPoor PeopleClinicMedical CareUnderpaidPublic Money Author:Molly Crabapple
“I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.” StillsKidsSchoolLawNextHavensMedicalGradesGraduatesHeadingsLaw SchoolMedical School Author:Chris Matthews
“ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.” CareMedicalDramaticAgendasAdvancingMedical CareNecessary ChangeAca Author:John E. McDonough
“As a nation, we are on a path of rapid and deep systemic change to our health system, and it's going to unfold for some time to come. It is already transforming the fundamental nature of the U.S. medical care delivery system.” CareNationsPathFundamentalsMedicalRapidsTransformingDeliveryMedical CareHealth SystemSystemic Change Author:John E. McDonough
“There were people I knew that came to college and had never drank before, and never partied, and maybe got a little bit too carried away with it when they did finally get out of the house... I feel like I got that stuff out of my system when I was sixteen and knew to balance things - but at the same time - it's not like I was out getting my medical degree. Playing in a band, you can still have plenty of fun!” PeopleFeelsLittlesStillsHouseFunStuffBitsCollegeBalanceBandDegreesLittle BitMedicalPlentyDrankSixteenCarried Away Author:Chris Baio
“Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.” PeopleYearsHelpingAttentionYears AgoFoundationMedicalLatinSustainabilityProvidingIndigenousLatin AmericaIndigenous PeopleLatin American Author:Patricia Velasquez
“Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.” TryingMovingStudyDiseaseFolksMedicalSymbolsJudgementComparisonPerfectionismExhaustionResearchersStatus Symbol Author:Brené Brown
“[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.” DoeTwoGovernmentSeaHavensDirectorsHundredRaisesMedicalShorePeterTestingGreat WorkSanctuaryLabsSea Life Author:Alison Eastwood
“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!” WorldPersonsHas BeensStoriesDreamCoursesGivenChancePsychologyShareInspirePerspectiveResearchMedicalRelateChanging The WorldDedicatedPipePositive PsychologyMedical ResearchPipe DreamsPositive Perspective Author:Trista Sutter
“I think that the marriage of academic medical centers and academicians with the private sector is a very, is a marriage made in heaven because it's the best way to get basic discoveries from the laboratory into new therapeutics for our patients.” ThinkingWayMadeHeavenDiscoveryPatientMedicalBest WayAcademicLaboratoryPrivate Sector Author:Laurie Glimcher
“The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.” WayNeedsKindCountryWholeFactsWould BePoliticalDealsEconomicNeededProgramAidsMedicalBest WayAll KindsOur CountryBurmaParts Of A Whole Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.” YearsTwoEndsHelpingCareLawPresidentPayPlansTaxesCongressMedicalHealth CareTwo YearsSomething NewDevicesPresident ObamaDelayed Author:Susan Davis
“Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.” HumansPersonsProblemEvilCasesMedicalAbortionPregnancyAvoidingScenariosTheologicalHuman ProblemsMedical Problems Author:Pope Francis
“hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in chemistry, thinking I would attend medical school. Ultimately, I decided that a career in nursing would allow more time for pursuing other creative interests. While I worked as an RN, I wrote stories inspired by my patients, designed t-shirts, and made hand-painted sandals.” ThinkingWritingMadeStoriesHandsSchoolInterestCareersCreativeCollegeDegreesDecidedInspiredPatientMathMedicalShirtsMore TimeChemistryT ShirtCreative WritingNursingMath And ScienceMedical SchoolSandals Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!” PeopleSchoolMotherMy OwnBecomingDoctorsProfessionMedicalNurseGraduatesContemplatingDiscouragedNursingSuitableMedical SchoolBecoming A Doctor Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the Utah legislature. He warned them that rabbits might eat the weed. And then what would you have? You'd have a bunch of weed-crazed rabbits running around. They'd run rampant in the state's cornfields and taco orchards.” StatesMightRunningFrontsBecomingRaisedMedicalBunchAgentsWeedMarijuanaRabbitsAlarmsLegislatureOrchardUtahTacosMedical Marijuana Author:Peter Sagal
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.” WayEnergySecretRiskHappenedProductsDrugTradeMedicalEnginesAdoptionSteamVaccinesPatentsRisk-takingSteam EnginesMedical Advances Author:Bill Gates
“With regard to testimony from various experts, there was pro and con. The argument was very articulately made that many provinces allow mature minors - minors capable of making the decision - to make decisions on their own treatment in very serious cases, including cancer. They are given the right to ask for medical treatment to be withheld, so long as they understand.” LongMadeAsksGivenDecisionCasesSeriousCapableArgumentRegardIncludingCancerVariousMedicalExpertsTreatmentMatureMinorsTestimonyProvincesMedical TreatmentPros And Cons Author:Kelvin Ogilvie
“After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence. An individual in this situation is going to be followed closely, and if they've made this advance request, and had it approved, then obviously it's up to the medical team advising them to follow the legislation.” IfsMadeSufferingIndividualCausesLossSituationTeamConditionsMedicalLegislationCompetenceRequestApproved Author:Kelvin Ogilvie
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.” PeopleIfsWantChildrenI CanEndsStoriesBodyPainSufferingDiesParentUnderstandingModernDyingComfortMembersConceptsAbsolutesPhilosophicalCancerCreatorExtremesBonesMedicalOfferingAgonyDrowningFamily MembersMedical ScienceChildren DyingBone Cancer Author:Kelvin Ogilvie
“Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.” PeopleThinkingPlayMightCausesResultsFictionWonderPossibilityAccountsNotesDetailsCarefulAppreciationDeeperMedicalCandidatesPreciseSymptomsAmbiguityBrillianceCholera Author:Philip Kitcher
“Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.” CircumstancesBenefitsCommitmentOrganizationMedicalObligationInstanceEmployeeShedRemorseHesitationPension Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).” HeartCountryNationsCasesResourcesOppositesSuicideRateIllnessLondonMedicalMental IllnessDevelopingOutcomesHeart AttackPsychiatric Author:Richard Bentall
“People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.” PeopleSocialApproachModelsUnderstoodDeserveMedicalFavorsGenuineIgnoredPsychoBios Author:Peter Kinderman
“When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.” PeopleShouldMayCareIssuesNeededCrisisMedical Author:Peter Kinderman
“Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.” DifferentPracticeDisciplineOffersDoctorsMedicalTherapyPsychiatristMedicationPsychotherapyMedical Doctor Author:Jed Diamond
“Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.” ProblemIndividualGreaterRiskMedicalHurricanesMedical Problems Author:Richard E. Besser
“I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.” ThinkingSocialSexPracticeConsequenceMedicalSelectionAdverseQuestionable Author:Michael Sandel
“One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.” KindRaceImagineArmsMedicalFeaturesHeightInterventionLimitlessArms Race Author:Michael Sandel
“I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.” ThinkingWould BeDesirePurposeResourcesTragedyMedicineMedicalConsumersSatisfyingTechnologicalBreakthroughGreat Tragedy Author:Michael Sandel
“Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.” ThinkingWayMadeProblemHandsMightWould BeMovingPurposeSituationStudyTheoryDevelopmentLaborHistoricalMalesMedicalSignificantOne WayTouchingEstablishmentCorpsesFeverGermsHands Up Author:Laura Mullen
“So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.” ProblemPainCausesCommonAnxietyCancerMedicalMore TimeLinkedChronic PainMenopauseMedical Problems Author:Shelby Harris
“I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.” WorldKidsNaturalVery GoodGlassesMedicalHuntersSelectionNatural SelectionMedical Advances Author:Carl Zimmer
“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.” KnowsFirstsHeartDoneStudyStudentsThousandTenDoctorsMalesMedicalAgendasNancyHeart AttackProtocolAspirinWomen's Health Author:Barbara Mikulski
“A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"” Would BeVoiceTalkingCenturyDegreesDoctorsMedicalJournalGet RealReally Interesting19th CenturyPathology Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.” PeopleTodayPatientAidsMedicalTreatmentAdvancementRecklessMedical Treatment Author:Yoweri Museveni
“Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.” MeanDifferentCausesChallengesAidsMedicalPhenomenonDocumentsHivImmuneTextbooksDeficiencySyndromes Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.” AbleCausesDealsConsequenceSouthIllnessAidsMedicalSouth AfricaInfrastructureHivImmuneTextbooksDeficiencyProgrammesHealth System Author:Thabo Mbeki
“There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.” DoeUseHomeMotherHealingExampleCapacityIndiaClaimsMedicalWoundsHealGrandmotherHerbsMississippiPatentsMother And GrandmotherJaundice Author:Vandana Shiva
“One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.” IfsWayWantHelpingLife IsSufferingSidesTroubleConcernAspectMedicalGenuineReasonableTreatmentSensibleComplaintsBleedingPsychotherapyStrands Author:James Hillman
“Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsLightConsciousnessGoneRightsAreasDressesMedicalCivil RightsLegacyPhenomenonLeapMarijuanaSixtySuperficialRehearsalMedical MarijuanaCounterculture Author:Tom Robbins
“I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindHumansHas BeensImportantBodyRealityRealizingNaturalAttentionIssuesSubjectsExampleAspectDoctorsImportanceStressMedicineMedicalLifestyleAlternativesTherapyWorthwhileInteractionConventionalThreatenedHuman BodyParadigmInsistingMind BodyAlternative MedicineMedical Education Author:Andrew Weil
“I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.” PeopleGivenTermGoneDemocracyVoteAccessMedicalShouldersGiantsTreatmentMedical TreatmentAffording Author:Annie Lennox
“The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeCountryStatesCareEarthDifficultUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleCollegeBecomingBenefitsMajorsPaidUniversityMedicalOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareGuaranteesMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.” GovernmentNamesEffortRecordsSecurityInformationDoctorsPatientLibraryPhonesCreditMedicalPlanningHillsSensitiveNational SecurityAbout FamilyCapitolGagsFamily PlanningCapitol HillPersonal InformationMedical Records Author:Dick Durbin
“No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.” ThinkingKnowsMeanDoneHouseIssuesPaidMedical Author:Eleanor Smeal
“There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing the doctor's job, and the doctors were doing the disease job, so no one was caring for the patient and the loved one.” JobsHusbandDiseaseDoctorsSickPatientCaringMedicalMy HusbandNurseLoved OnesVoid Author:Donna Karan
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“Medical malpractice - that's a great issue for Republicans and you didn't hear anyone talk about it.” IssuesRepublicanMedicalMalpractice Author:Andrea Tantaros
“The fact is, some of the most respected scientific bodies in the world, including Codex Alimentarius (jointly run by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association, have stated that more research needs to be done on GMOs through premarket safety assessments before we can truthfully determine their safety.” WorldNeedsDoneFactsBodyRunningNationsUnitedResearchOrganizationSafetyIncludingDetermineBritishMedicalAssociationUnited NationsAssessmentPublic HealthGmosWorld HealthWorld Health Organization Author:Zoe Lister-Jones