Treatment Outcome Quotes

We all remember how, at the beginning of the sulphonamide era, it was repeatedly observed that fresh cases of gonorrhoea in men responded best to sulphonamide treatment when suppuration had already occurred for several days, and not at the first appearance of the disease.

I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.

The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Being in rehab it's no fun. But afterwards it's like the best thing ever. I didn't want to leave.

Placebos work.

The fact remains that many of the most creative and innovative hypotheses that are eventually verified by empirical research are born in the consulting room out of practitioners' work with individual patients.

My son is living proof that those like him can not only be treated, but can live lives free of the pain that plagued them and the disease that controlled them.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.