Prolonged Illness Quotes

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.