-Neurologist Socorro Martinez of St. Luke's Medical Center,
sharing her experience with breast cancer at the
17th annual convention of the Philippine Society of Medical Oncology,
October 2003
I have medical bills there's no way you could ever pay, and every time life gets going, here comes cancer again.
-Utah farmer Dave Timothy who lived downwind from the Nevada nuclear test
site,
speaking about the effects of US nuclear tests on his health
quoted by National Geographic, November 2002
Well, you have to say, and you have to be comfortable to say, that sex is okay.
-Psychiatrist Antonio Sison
of The Medical City in a lecture on
sexuality and oncology at the 17th annual convention of the
Philippine Society Medical Oncology, October 2003
I have not written this book to obtain more referrals. I am 70 years old; I am tired of whiplash and I hope never to see another case again.
-Dr. Andrew Malleson,
author and psychiatrist from Toronto's
University Health Network in his book Whiplash and Other
Useful Illnesses (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
When we verbalize, that's the start of healing.
-Writer and clinical psychologist V.E. Carmelo Nadera
Jr. of the
University of the Philippines-Department of Filipino and
Philippine Literature on the benefits of poetry therapy
Here is this preventable illness (tuberculosis) that takes more lives today than it did a century ago, and all we hear about is bioterrorism and diseases that almost no one is dying from.
-Dr. Lee Reichman, professor, New Jersey Medical School on America
giving priority to bioterror
research over diseases
that kill millions quoted by Newsweek, April 5, 2004
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
-Irish poet and dramatist and Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats, in his Essays
