Painful Treatment Quotes

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

I've had some not-great experiences with laser hair removal, probably because I haven't done what they told me.

After being diagnosed with cancer, one is in a lot of fear and anxiety about the anticipated pain and the painful treatment.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.