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Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

We are providing our customers with affordable access to the most comprehensive line of radiotherapy products and services for state-of-the-art cancer treatments and neurosurgical procedures. We're enabling them to choose the most versatile, cost effective medical products and technologies for patient care.

We are proud to team up with Kodak to support in the successful storing and retrieving of critical medical and dental images of the Olympic athletes. Customers from all over the globe look to Sun for its end-to- end solution and service offerings for addressing data management needs relative to the healthcare enterprise, and the performance, reliability and overall value of its solution offerings for the healthcare industry.

We are preparing to address the health care needs of the people here. There are people who have perhaps not addressed their needs for prescriptions or need medical attention.

We are pleased to welcome Marjorie, an accomplished medical journalist and online specialist to About.com. This is our latest move to dramatically expand and further differentiate our high quality Health offering. Marjorie will leverage her extensive experience in health media to help us grow our health channel well past its current 4.9 million monthly visitors.

We are pleased to welcome BSD Medical Corporation to the American Stock Exchange. We welcome the addition of BSD Medical to the exchange's growing family of medical technology companies, and we look forward to supporting the company in the next stages of its development.

We are pleased to reach this agreement with one of Oklahoma's leading providers of home care services. CV Medical Solutions has an excellent reputation in the communities it serves and will complement our current facility in Tulsa. This acquisition demonstrates our commitment to the home care needs of the Oklahoma market.

We started the week with the dedication of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Medical Building in our honor on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center, and we are thrilled to be ending the week with the announcement of a continuation of our 42-year relationship with Chrysler during which we have raised nearly $42 million for charity in our community. We look forward to an exciting future with our title sponsor, Chrysler, which is and continues to be the longest running sponsor-tournament relationship on the PGA TOUR.

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

We believe that the government shouldn't be able to go into your home without telling you, and that it shouldn't be able to get records about what books you've read, your medical records and other private records without any individual suspicion.

We believe that rape victims deserve compassionate and competent medical care. But we disagree on what proper medical care is.

There are changes in the medical room and in the locker room, all with the goal of providing better care to our players,

We appreciate the willingness of Trafton Properties to consider donating land to MaineGeneral Medical Center and/or sell land at a discounted price if improved access to I-95 is provided. We will contact you if we have interest in developing the site in the future,

There is no medical reason to put a child through that. Quite basically, it is a human-rights violation.

There is no medical or scientific evidence that Vioxx contributed to Mr. Humeston's heart attack.

Until the county has a hospital, industry is not going to come here. Industries want to be able to provide medical care for their workers.

We'd like to create a medical niche here in New Albany.

We believe that Family Worship Center is trying to avoid its obligations under the options due to the change in the real estate market. ... Which is particularly unfortunate since it is our understanding that LSU wants to use some of the existing space to immediately house physicians who would render medical services to people impacted by the hurricane.

When I was on my honeymoon, I lost use of my right arm and right leg, and that's when we knew something was wrong. I was not totally paralyzed, but there was loss of sensation and feeling. The doctor on the ship could feel that my right side was weaker. They told me something was going on, but that it was not a medical emergency and that it didn't matter if I went off the boat that day or in four days.

We're getting too old to care for them at home and it's something we couldn't do anyway because of their medical needs.

What we're seeing is employers who are trying to find out people who might be sick in the future, who might run up the company's medical bills, and (efforts) to screen them out, even though the company knows they can do the job perfectly well.

What a jury is going to get is A, Merck fudged on the details. B, the fudge was in their favor. C, it was on purpose. D, Merck lied about fudging, or at least covered it up. And E, the most prestigious medical journal in the United States of America has called their hand on it and said this is unethical and wrong.

We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.

We grant wishes for 2- to 18-year-olds with life-threatening medical conditions.

We are getting some more analysis on his injury. He's wanting to play, and we're hopeful he can, but we are going to get the proper medical opinions. We're going to make sure.

Work is great therapy. When you have a job you can do almost anything. You can have medical insurance. You can get your kids back in school. You can buy a house. Work solves a lot of problems,

Working with the families is critical to getting the job done properly, and the truth is that the medical examiner and the police need to establish a synergistic relationship from the outset.

With the medical evidence, we could prove that was not the case.

With the mass flooding they had in New Orleans dental records will probably be non-obtainable, medical records are out, so that I guess the only thing that they could do would probably be DNA testing.

With the intrusion, and maybe rightly so, of legal concerns, medical concerns, business concerns, maybe some of that might be changing sports journalism a little bit - and maybe should change. The sports reporters of today - the good ones, anyway, working for good news organizations - shouldn't be held to any less stringent professional and ethical standards than any other journalist.

We're finding a dramatic increase in the total number of families throughout the U.S. that are paying a high share of their income for medical bills. When you add in premiums, it's even higher.

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

We're getting reports of clusters of cases of diarrheal illness, ... In these shelters, it's important for the medical professionals to pay close attention to hygiene.

We're getting into some new markets in Kansas City and Minneapolis. We're getting into medical supplies. And this will allow us to do that.

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

We're really blessed at the medical center to have some wonderful educators. People will have a chance to interact with them at the clinic. We want this to be very interactive.

With these helpful features, users will be able to find anything from medical papers to travel profiles, and from literary journals to celebrity biographies quickly and easily.

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Ventana Medical Systems is a fast-growing organization that is committed to strong financial control. Certainty will help them to both reduce the costs of ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but also provide them the platform to further automate financial control processes.

Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?

With this initiative, FDA intends to improve the way it monitors the safety of medical devices and provide a strong safety net to protect public health.

We want to provide food, water, shelter and medical supplies to everyone. No one should be afraid to accept our offers to provide safety.

Whenever the medical profession steps into these social policy issues, things get really complicated in a hurry. Quite frankly, that's the reason San Quentin has never required medical professions to be involved.

We want to see to it that we still have medical decisions being made in favor of and on behalf of the patients, ... This is to see to it that the HMOs are treated the same as anybody else, not given preferential and reverential treatment. That's what the Norwood amendment does.

We want to see him wake up. There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is.

We were delighted to find that patients who get the current state-of-the-art treatment with platelet blockers, medical treatment and stents during procedures had a significant improvement in their outcome.

We always felt like medical records would be a huge business because that's the biggest expense health care has in moving information. It's just taken a long time for the business models, the products to meet the need." ()

We also say that their initial testing was flawed, that they didn't have the right personnel involved in the medical testing, didn't do the right test to determine if this risk was apparent, and it's something that they should have known.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

This will not be a factor for Penn State medical students.

We are honored to welcome these outstanding individuals to the Board, ... We look forward to combining their expertise and guidance to continue in our mission to perform outstanding basic research in the life-sciences and to provide the foundation of knowledge that is critical to medical progress.

We did have evidence from real life resuscitations with skilled health care providers that compressions were being interrupted so frequently for legitimate medical treatment.

What we're going to do as a department is to collaborate and to cooperate and partnership with the people of Iraq to rebuild that medical system back to what it was in the 1970s,

What we're doing is entertaining. It's like a medical show. When you go to the hospital you're not going to find that doctor you see on TV.

What we need to do is help companies understand where their vulnerabilities are, what products are critical during a pandemic that we must have, such as medical supplies, and how are we going to respond to that?

There is a shortage of pharmacists nationwide, and it's no different in this area, ... With the medical field expansions we've had in past few years, plus the corollary with shortages, it makes sense to use trained, experienced personnel.

There is a procedural spine, but I wouldn't watch it for the medical stories. Frankly, it would bore me.

There are more women being accepted and graduating from college today, whether it be the hotel schools or law schools or medical schools, than ever before. It's over 50 percent.

There are some serious questions here. It is very reasonable for you to expect that your medical records will be kept safe and secure. That doesn't appear to be what happened.

The only confirmed survivor is Randall McCloy, who has now been rushed to a local hospital in serious condition. The 11 remaining miners in the barricade structure were determined by the medical technicians on the rescue team to have already deceased.

There are examples in the health medical records space; there are examples in student data and transcript space; and there are also examples in transportation and licensing space. So we're trying to understand how they work.

We have reached the point that if you have a medical record, credit card or computer, you have a privacy problem,

The extreme conditions of a long underwater mission are similar to those of space, ... This mission presents aquanauts and physicians with an unprecedented opportunity to test state-of-the-art remote medical techniques in real-time and real-life situations. Someday, these techniques could be used in long-duration, manned space flights.

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.

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.

We set out to rebuild New Orleans how the people wanted. In the poorer, disenfranchised regions - like Algiers, and the seventh and ninth wards - literacy, food and medical care were already ongoing problems. We're trying to address all of those.