#treatment

Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural tendency is to attribute the cure to the treatment. But there are thousands of treatments that have worked in clinical practice throughout history. Powdered stone worked. So did lizard's blood, and crocodile dung, and pig's teeth and dolphin's genitalia and frog's sperm. Patients have been given just about every ingestible - though often indigestible - substance imaginable. They have been 'purged, puked, poisoned, sweated, and shocked', and if these treatments did not kill them, they may have made them better. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#history #treatments #imagination

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. ↗

— Gary Miller

#citizenship #door #emergency #hospitals #must

I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#eye #fact #family #fans #gave

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#courteous #customer #make #treatment #walking

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways. ↗

— Pink

#ethical #greenpeace #i #involved #lot

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#any #certain #cost #cruel #elderly

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#compare #developed #films #find #habit

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#beautiful #beautiful place #depressed #end #ended

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. ↗

— James Randi

#been #beings #decisions #experiments #human

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#advocate #believe #enactment #essential #former