“As for free education, universal medical care and other basic rights: Yes, people have to fight! Of course they have to. Free and good education is their right, no matter what advisors and 'experts' coming from the United States say.” PeopleCareFightingMedicalGood EducationMedical Care Author:Andre Vltchek
“The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has been advancing. We have now genomic data. We have the power of big data about what your living patterns are, what's happening in your body. Even your smartphone can collect data about your walking or your pulse or other things that could be incredibly meaningful in being able to predict whether you have disease coming in the future and help avert those problems.” HelpingProblemCareWalkingMedicalMeaningfulAffordable Author:Atul Gawande
“Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.” PeopleThinkingProblemWalkingMedicalAll TimeOver YouUnnecessaryObesityMorbidWalking Dead Author:Roxane Gay
“On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better electronic health records, more inter-operability amongst various types of electronic systems and cybersecurity is becoming a huge deal in in health care. Health care records are highly sought after by virtue of the fact that not only do you have somebody's person financial information, you also have their person medical information.” RealCareTechnologyVirtueFinancialVariousMedicalHealth CareInformation Technology Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.” GoalMedicalAtmosphereHippie Author:Dian Hanson
“Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.” GivingGuyDrugSummerAddictionScaryAlcoholDrivenMedicalDrunkTeenagerSummer Camp Author:Kristen Johnston
“My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.” ThinkingImportantBookMomentsProblemWinningPrayerPolicyDrugAddictionLawyerMedicalLeaving Me Author:Glenn Loury
“I naturally gravitate toward the big picture which isn't necessarily advantageous when you go on to a career in research because successful researchers usually choose a pretty narrow channel. So having tunnel vision actually helps you stay where you are supposed to stay. The big picture in medical care was looking at the underlying causes of all of this pathology. I really wanted to do something about that and play a meaningful role in changing the trajectory of people's lives and their health and by changing their health, changing the quality of their lives.” HelpingCareQualityVisionSuccessfulMedicalMeaningfulBig PictureMedical CareTunnel Vision Author:David Katz
“When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the time I did my training in medical school to the end of my residency we were already seeing the transformation of adult onset diabetes into Type II, which is what we call it now, which from my perspective is a euphemism we have draped over this condition to conceal the fact that what was a chronic disease in midlife is now epidemic in children. Frankly, Type II diabetes in a seven year old is adult onset diabetes. We just don't want to confront that unpleasant fact.” KindChildrenSchoolPerspectiveTrainingTransformationSevenMedicalDiabetesJuvenileEuphemismMedical School Author:David Katz
“The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's not just the fact that some people get millions of dollars, others get nothing, and the one people who get rich are lawyered, it's just that it causes doctors to practice defensive medicine.” PeopleRichJudgmentMedicalGet Rich Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The thing that you worry about your first flight or any flight is some kind of a problem coming up that is going to keep you from doing it. Whether it's being hit by a car, or getting in a bad accident, or coming down with some other medical disqualification. But once the boosters light, you're going.” KindProblemWorryCarMedicalFlight Author:Leroy Chiao
“Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.” SometimesIllnessMedicalAbortionChildbirth Author:Achy Obejas
“I could have a sex change and become a woman, physically. But in some ways that isn't even necessary. Because we live in a time when real life, and virtual life are at parity. We are so used to being creators, and creating versions of ourselves, mainly online, and through our communication technology, that I could very well picture myself as a woman, and consider myself a woman, even if my body would be classified as a male body by a medical examiner.” RealTechnologyCommunicationMedicalReal LifeOnline Author:James Franco
“I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.” WritingHomeAgeSchoolParentChallengesSonHusbandSevenMotherhoodProfessionMedicalI RealizedPensStorytellerMedical School Author:Tess Gerritsen
“Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.” EnoughHelpingNaturalGeniusScientistDisappearMedicalMasochistic Author:Deborah Blum
“In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.” CareSupportEntrepreneurMedicalHealth CareIntegratedPhilanthropic Author:Li Ka-shing
“Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment.” PeopleTryingSchoolMissingDrugDrinkingAlcoholMedicalInsultedMedical School Author:Danielle Ofri
“People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.” PeopleTryingReasonSpeakDecisionEvidenceFinancialMedicalDecision MakingBetter LifeRumorBetter PersonReally True Author:Daniel Levitin
“Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. It utilizes psychology to say that women are emotional. It utilizes medical science to say that men's brains are formed in such a way that they are better able to understand concepts. These are all hypotheses. None of this has been proven.” CultureBrainPsychologyEmotionalArgumentIslamMedicalJustifyProtestJustified Author:Shirin Ebadi
“Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help and attention, emergency Cesarean sections and forceps. If you think that people just have a kid and it's no big deal, that's not true. It's one of the most dangerous things for a woman to do. If you take away access to accessible medical women in America, you're going to bump up the death rate.” PeopleThinkingHelpingKidsAttentionDangerousBabyRateMedicalPregnancy Author:Abigail Tarttelin
“When I think about what I'm going through, as President, it doesn't compare to what the folks that I'm representing are going through. They're losing jobs. They're trying to figure out how to pay their medical bills. They've seen retirements suddenly dissipate because of what's happening in the stock market. And so as tough as the job might be, and the politics of Washington can sometimes be I'm always reminded of how fortunate I am to be here, and what an extraordinary responsibility I have to try to deliver on some of the promises that I made during the election.” ThinkingTryingSometimesPresidentResponsibilityPromiseLosingToughElectionExtraordinaryMedicalCompareRetirement Author:Barack Obama
“I think that the needs of the VA and the needs of the veteran community are very, very significant. Š¦e're talking about a VA system in which, in the last years a million-and-a-half more people have come into the system. You're dealing with 500,000 people have come home from Iraq an Afghanistan with PTSD and TBI. You're dealing with an older veterans population from World War II and Korea who need some difficult medical help. We want to see it be more efficient. We want to see doctors go to where they're needed.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarHelpingHomeDifficultCommunityMedicalSignificantWar Of The WorldsComing HomeAfghanistanWorld War IiWorld War IVeteran Author:Bernie Sanders
“In Germany it's impossible to go bankrupt for medical bills, because even if you are bankrupt, ... the social solidarity system pays for your medical bills. The idea is, if you do have financial problems and a lot of worries for other reasons, you do not need to have another burden in not being able to pay medical bills.” ReasonProblemWorryImpossibleFinancialBurdenMedicalSolidarity Author:Karl Lauterbach
“I think from an economics point of view, it is important that the money that is spent for health care is well spent - what is the cost-effectiveness of the money that is used? - because if the money is well spent, many people benefit from the system, and it is also a good market for finding employment. I do not see a reason why we should limit ourselves when it comes to very qualified and humane employment opportunities if there is no waste and if there is medical need.” PeopleThinkingImportantReasonCareOpportunityPoint Of ViewMedicalHealth Care Author:Karl Lauterbach
“The U.S. has a system that does have a poor cost-benefit ratio. I mean, 40 million people lack insurance; another 30 million or so are underinsured. The people who are insured do have to worry whether they are able to pay the bills. People become bankrupt because they cannot pay the medical bills, and there are vast differences in the quality of care depending on how much you are prepared and able to pay. I think the system is not working well.” PeopleThinkingMeanCarePoorQualityWorryMedical Author:Karl Lauterbach
“If you look at figures, we have a good supply of doctors in Switzerland. They always say that in the future we shall have a lack of home doctors, family doctors. I'm not sure of that, but we have a problem of formation. Every year there [are] about 1,000 students beginning medical studies, and at the end of the formation there are only 600 young people getting the diploma. It means that about 40 percent of the students fail during the studies, although there is a selection at the beginning. Forty percent is too much as failure, so probably there is a problem in the formation, education.” PeopleMeanProblemHomeStudyFailingStudentsMedicalNot SureForty Author:Pascal Couchepin
“My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.” GivingLosingGratefulMedicalExtras Author:Lore Segal
“When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times - tragically he died of leukemia at a very young age. He talked about how we can have an opportunity to live a lifetime in a moment, in a day, in a month, in a year - when you're confronted with the finite reality of your own existence, all these moments become lifetimes.” WritingMomentsRealityAgeSchoolOpportunityExistenceLifetimeMedicalMedical SchoolLeukemia Author:Dafydd Williams
“There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick.” PeopleCountryHelpingRiskSickMedical Author:Bill Gates
“Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time. Suddenly we had become these people who didn't drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.” PeopleKindMomentsSituationWifeTearsDrinkMy WifeMedical Author:Ben Doller
“In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians, so the natural path for me would have been to become a doctor. I ended up doing the master's degree at Oxford in politics, philosophy, and economics while already having a seat in medical school. I was keeping that as my escape hatch. But my hope was that I might become a philosopher or something else entirely.” PhilosophySchoolNaturalEffortStudyPathSonPhilosopherMedicalRebellionMedical School Author:Atul Gawande
“I'm trained as a medical doctor - that's my field: I've been practicing long enough to see how extremely broken our health care system is, how broken our health is, the link between that and the environment.” LongEnoughCareEnvironmentBrokenMedicalHealth Care Author:Jill Stein
“If you really want people to remain healthy, you can't just throw pills at people once they become sick, which I feel like I was doing as a medical doctor, so I began working on more upstream thinking.” PeopleThinkingHealthySickMedical Author:Jill Stein
“We need a comprehensive renewal of the nursing care system in Germany, and quickly. The two-tier medical system must be abolished. Patients with public health insurance are waiting months to be seen by a specialist doctor, while doctors increasingly give priority to privately insured patients. That's unacceptable. We also need an educational revolution. Medicine, nursing care, education: Germany is not a modern country when it comes to these three areas. We have to adapt our policies to the social reality. These are projects that can awaken Germany out of its torpor.” GivingCountryRealityCareWaitingModernPolicyRevolutionPatientEducationalMedicalPrioritiesRenewalNursingPublic Health Author:Martin Schulz
“A lot of the medical imagery has to do with my own biography. I had open heart surgery, I had knee replacements, I had a hiatal hernia, etc. Every time you go for surgery, you get a whole spectrum of imaging. Of course, I've been doing research in imaging technology across the board for close to twenty years. When you think about it, medical imaging is actually quite new. The first major medical image was the x-ray in 1895. That was the first time you got imaging of anything that's in the bodily interior.” ThinkingHeartTechnologyFirst TimeMedicalSurgeryImageryOpen Heart Author:Don Ihde
“In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.” ProblemSleepSeriousDifficultyComplicatedMedicalLifestyle Author:Arianna Huffington
“The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we have about 20 per cent of people who have that prerequisite who are female. So hey, girls: Embrace the very fun career of science and technology. Look at computer science. That's what I did.” PeopleGirlFunTechnologyComputerFemaleEmbraceMedicalAstronautComputer ScienceScience And Technology Author:Julie Payette
“I have a lot of anxiety about medical things for example. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but I'd had the practice when I went into shooting Synecdoche. It can be somewhat gratifying, too, because I don't have that relationship with other adults where I need to comfort them or they come to me for that.” ThinkingComfortAnxietyMedical Author:Charlie Kaufman
“The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.” AgeTogetherPowerfulSuccessfulScientistMedicalBiology20th Century Author:E. O. Wilson
“The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the medical scientists. Studying model species is a great idea, but we need to combine that with biodiversity studies and have those properly supported because of the contribution they can make to conservation biology, to agrobiology, to the attainment of a sustainable world.” WorldTodayStudyStudentsScientistMedicalBiologyConservationGreat IdeaBiodiversity Author:E. O. Wilson
“In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.” DifferentMedicalSellingMarijuanaDifferent Place Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer. I still think there's a huge problem about how we can actively engage a wider range of women. I'm not saying women must be a separate audience - I'm just responding to the reality that the majority of people who do read science magazines are male. That's not a value judgment; it's a statistical fact.” PeopleThinkingWritingProblemRealityValuesAudienceJudgmentCancerMedicalBreast Cancer Author:Margaret Wertheim
“I wish that I knew the importance of having a regular mammogram, as early detection offers better treatment options and a better quality of life. I ignored the warning signs of the lump underneath my right arm when I discovered it in September 2006 and didn't seek medical attention until March 2007. By then, I was experiencing a late stage of breast cancer that forever changed my life.” WishAttentionQualityForeverChangedImportanceCancerMedicalMarchSeptemberIgnoredQuality Of LifeBreast CancerChanged My Life Author:Thelma Jones
“In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.” HumansProblemSufferingToolsPrivilegeMedicalApplicationRadiationColleaguesLaboratoryHuman Suffering Author:Ernest Lawrence
“The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.” PeopleHas BeensFoundInformationDevelopmentDatingMedicalSavedSignificantGoogleEmailWebsiteAlgorithms Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.” SchoolLastsDoctorsMedicalIdiotLeagueMotivational SportsLemonsSports PsychologyFunny BaseballMedical SchoolMedical Education Author:Abe Lemons
“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” WholeGovernmentCareIndividualForeverHealthCitizensFolksMedicalHealth CareBudgetsSchemesItemsExpendituresInsidious Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.” MenWayCareWealthRichDogBuiltMedicineWorkersProsperityMedicalVaccinesRich ManMedical CareVaccinations Book:The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel Source: The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel
“Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.” PeopleGayWindowSuicideMedicalWeedMarijuanaGay MarriageCannabisMedical MarijuanaAssisted Suicide Author:Bill Maher
“Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.” NotesIllIllnessMedicalMental IllnessMentally IllArtefacts Author:Hilary Mantel