The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same but the medical practice changes.
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
In the sick room ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
If you look at the human condition today not everyone is well fed has access to good medical care or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.
These technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Understand that legal and illegal are political and often arbitrary categorizations use and abuse are medical or clinical distinctions.
One goes through school college medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community law enforcement medical professionals and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not by any stretch of the imagination doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
And for my family comedically that was the key to a lot of the humor.
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural no interventions. Wish me luck.
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options medically and emotionally: give up or Fight Like Hell.
Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
In addition I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
However many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
America's doctors nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world but our health care system is broken.
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling stolen generations issues family relationships violence suicide prevention.
It is so characteristic that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.