“It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.” IfsGivingLongCareUnderstandingTechnologyClearPolicyDiseaseResearchRegardMedicinePrioritiesSavingHealth CareMakersMechanismPhysiciansPrudenceObligedIncompleteSaving MoneyDeficiencyHaulHealth Care SystemLong HaulPolicy MakersBasic Research Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.” SoulPleasureRegardMedicineFuelAbiding Book:Italian Days Source: Italian Days
“When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell.” MenHumansTodayUsedPracticeHellProgressResearchRegardMedicineAvailableContemptOrgansSparesDescentImplicitFetusPreventive MedicineUsed And Abused Author:Pope Benedict XVI