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Your Quotes for 11 January 2006 - Health

Amid growing concern about the rise of diabetes in affluent countries it came as a surprise that it was less than a century ago, on this day in 1922, that insulin was first tried as a cure. (The patient had severe allergic reactions to the injection due to impurities, but it worked when they tried again a week later.) It was on this day in 1964 that US Surgeon General Luther Terry released the report stating that smoking caused lung cancer and chronic bronchitis, giving us the now-familiar phrase "smoking may be hazardous for one's health". These events suggested Health as today's theme.

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
     - A.J. Reb Materi

Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped off the human drama. You, as doctors, will be in a position to see the human race stark naked - not only physically, but mentally and morally as well.
     - Martin H. Fischer, M.D., 1879 - 1962

When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans - common sense.
     - Vincent Askey

God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health care debate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.
     - Anna Quindlen

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
     - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, 1809 - 1894

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