Pain lacks a perfect history…because we love, love, to forget it.
--Author MARNI JACKSON in her book
Pain, The Fifth Vital Sign:
The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt (2002)
There's no way to go but up since we're in the pits….Sometimes a crisis is needed to wake up and energize the political leadership.
--Former finance secretary ROBERTO DE OCAMPO,
in a speech on the country's
economic prospects before the Marketing Executives of the Pharmaceutical
Industry
Curiously, few people question the wisdom of using medical technology to cause painless death, yet many question the wisdom of using the same technology to achieve painless birth…. Why reject the natural agonies of cancer and embrace the natural agonies of childbirth?
--Neurologist FRANK VERTOSICK JR.
in his book,
Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain (2000)
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
--Spanish film director LUIS BUÑUEL (1900-1983) in his autobiography,
My Last Sigh (1983)
As we think about changing the landscape of the use of the NSAIDs, there are some risks we are taking. Some of [these] risks are that we shift use to agents that may actually turn out, in the final analysis, to be less safe.
--DR. STEVEN NISSEN of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular
Coordinating Center on the coxib controversy
This is good news for patients over all. Clearly there are side effects with every medication, but it's really important to weigh the potential side effects versus the benefits for an individual patient.
--DR. RAYMOND GAETA of Stanford Hospital's pain-management
clinic on the coxib dilemma, quoted by
New York Times
There are half a million women who die during pregnancy or during childbirth. It's a scandal.
--MARIE-PAULE KIENY of the World
Health Organization, quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The intrinsic value and the personal dignity of every human being [do] not change no matter what the situation of his life…. Considerations about the 'quality of life,' often actually dictated by psychological, social, and economic pressures, cannot take precedence over general principles.
--Pope John Paul II (1920-2005),
in a March 2004 speech, quoted by Reuters
Awesome, isn't it?
HAN HOON, Korean stem-cell-therapy pioneer, on his inventory of frozen
cord blood from over 60,000 newborns, quoted by AFP
Emotion sells better than reason.
--Advertising executive BONG OSORIO, advising doctors on advocacy
at a workshop organized by the Philippine Heart Association
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