Medical Problems famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.
-- Amelia Warren Tyagi

#Medical Problems #People #Half
We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."
-- Katy Butler

#Medical Problems #Years #People
There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be hedonist or it's a chronic progressive disease. And while I certainly believe addiction is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health system, the way we've conceptualized addiction as a disease is not actually accurate, and it has unfortunately become stigmatizing and it's also created a lot of hopelessness in a lot of people.
-- Maia Szalavitz

#Believe #Two #Medical Problems
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Medical Problems #People #Challenges
So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.
-- Shelby Harris

#Pain #Cancer #Medical Problems
Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.
-- Michael Fox

#Attitude #Animal #Medical Problems
Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.
-- Cenk Uygur

#Men #Medical Problems #Doctors
Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.
-- Richard E. Besser

#Medical Problems #Risk #Hurricanes

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.
One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.
I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.'
I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
I think money in general hurts all sports.
The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then,
The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.
The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.