Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. Votes: 3
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Votes: 3
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. Votes: 3
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. Votes: 1
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. Votes: 1
I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills. Votes: 1
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness. Votes: 1
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. Votes: 1
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms. Votes: 0
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. Votes: 0
Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year. Votes: 0
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! Votes: 0
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Votes: 6 Marcel Proust
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Votes: 5 Rita Rudner