“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.” FirstsChildrenLittlesRealAliveDangerConsequenceVictimMedicineTerrorMedicalImaginaryFashionable Author:Maria Edgeworth
“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.” Has BeensRealAmericaTroubleDoctorsVictimMedicalSuitsTerrifiedBusinessmanRobotsBureaucratsMalpractice Author:Shana Alexander
“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.” Has BeensFactsLastsSilenceToo MuchWifeMinutesIgnoranceDiseaseVictimProfessionMedicalConspiracyWomens RightsOne MinuteMedical Profession Author:Christabel Pankhurst
“Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.” UseAgeDarkDoctorsVictimInvestmentCancerMedicalDark AgesCancer Victim Author:Erland Josephson
“The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from neglect and hunger in New York to loving farm families who couldn't wait to fatten them up, who gave them medical care, an education, affection. And some of the kids became the victims of terrible cruelty, and more hunger, and more neglect - it all depended on who adopted them off of the train.” CareKidsWaitingNew YorkTerribleVictimTrainHungerAffectionMedicalCrueltyNeglectFarmsAdoptedOrphanMedical Care Author:Laura Moriarty
“I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?” IfsKnowsI CanFunnyRecordsComedyAirHumorousVictimWho You AreMedicalTeethCrashAmazedDentistDentalToothacheDentistryDental Work Author:Paul Merton
“Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.” PeopleShouldMayProcessHealingCasesBlessingDepressionVictimCancerMedicalTragicCompelledInterventionLegionTerminalHealing ProcessReproofTerminal Cancer Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.” StatesAgeInterestDarkQualitySafetyVictimCancerMedicalDenialCodeCaliforniaAgencyPrivacyZoneTreatmentNightmareCompellingDrsEnforcementDark AgesSectsWarrantsIntrusionMedical TreatmentUnorthodoxOrwellianHealth And SafetyTestifyingCancer Victim Author:Rose Bird