“For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.” MenYearsLittlesI CanSufferingTurnsRoomsKnownConditionsProductsTypeDemandDiseaseGainsStonesWeightAll TimeCupsPlentyAppetiteCandySufferersAnorexicsCocoa Author:Victoria Wood
“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.” FirstsBookReasonRoomsHeardDiseaseMedicineCompareConceptionClassroomLecturesLecturingPractice Of Medicine Author:William Osler
“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.” MenHomeAgeGirlSpaceRoomsBoysDarknessAirDiseasePrisonSmellBoy And GirlHome HomeSmall Rooms Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.” PeopleNightDiesWaitingRoomsDyingBedDiseaseDiedHospitalsUnnecessaryWaiting Rooms Author:Richard Branson
“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.” GovernmentBeautifulFallRoomsDiseaseFleshWeed Book:Minutes to Go Source: Minutes to Go