Although the pandemic appears to have moderate severity in comparatively well-off countries, it is prudent to anticipate a bleaker picture as the virus spreads to areas with limited resources, poor health care, and a high...

Pain is a symphony – a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.

We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving...

I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don’t have...

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from his body.

There aren’t any syringes.” Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. “I know you’ll use this wisely.””Wisely?”...

With his revelation,…I shattered into a million shards. I felt each piece as it splintered and separated from the whole like a glass I had broken the day before. Debris flew everywhere. It left me...

Sure some medical experts say coffee could be a health hazard, but they obviously never built a web site before!

Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide...

$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

I answered that I was sure, and he asked me again, and this time I understood his concern. ‘I’m not embarrassed!’ I said, or at least tried to say, before recalling that embarazada means something...

Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.

I’m taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people....

The U.S. has a so-called health care system that has nothing to do with the promotion of health. Those who run this system do not care about your health, and it’s far from being a...

Isn’t the human body a miracle

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding...

Somatic Symptoms:People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach problems, and elimination problems. These people are sometimes most unfortunately mislabeled as hypochondriacs or...

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won’t pull over. He slams the horn.”Arthur,” I say.The car doesn’t yield.”Arthur,” I say.He hits...

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless.

There are no healing agents.

Periodic Paralysis is not our friend

In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.

It is necessary to make this point in answer to the `iatrogenic’ theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers, paranoids and schizophrenics can be created in analysis; a fabrication of the doctor—patient...

Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and...

There’s nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Parents of medically fragile children find themselves becoming experts in lots of different areas, including laws and regulations, research and treatments, and the various specialists that support the health of their children.

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

We cannot be damaged into health.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

No doctor knows everything. There’s a reason why it’s called “practising” medicine.

Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca. Dylan fans make pilgrimages to Hibbing.

You don’t look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.” Treating Murder

There wasn’t an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room…

To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation–head down, trying not to screw up, just going from one day to the next–that it is a shock to find yourself...

Happiness is corny. It is a word you do not find in Dorland’s medical dictionary. When people are feeling tops, really at peace with themselves and others, they are not happy. In the medical sense,...

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

You’ll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.