Medical Quotes

[Dr. Altcheck] confirmed the diagnosis that our medical people made, [which is] that the pain in his forearm is, in fact, from his elbow and that reconstructive surgery is recommended. - John Schuerholz

[By Wednesday morning, the Arkansas Times had changed its tune, calling for a massive federal response.] For the living, the prospects of homes, power, water, phones, jobs, ATMs, medical services, food any semblance of normal life are only the most distant dreams in New Orleans today. The 1927 flood seems to have been eclipsed in scale of destruction, ... A massive federal response is imperative. - Arkansas Times

[But increasingly, cost and convenience aren't the only factors driving doctors online. Patients themselves are growing Internet savvy and less tolerant of the medical profession's technological backwardness.] Patients go online and bring you articles from the medical journals... You have to go online to keep up with them. - Barbara Bishop

[At first] the general medical community was a little unsure and a bit skeptical about exactly what this meant and whether it would be a viable procedure. - American Society

[Another question is how to change incentives for developing the technologies in the first place.] In the automotive and consumer-electronics industries, there are incentives to develop good, cheap DVD players or good, cheap cars, ... When it comes to medical technology, there is no incentive to develop something that's pretty good but less expensive because the people who are buying it don't pay for it. It's not surprising that everyone wants a Cadillac instead of a Hyundai. - Dana Goldman

[A team from the inspector general's office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has begun inspecting facilities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to determine the security of biological samples. The investigation] could last up to four weeks... It amounts to an audit. - Tom Curtis

[A separate report by the New York Times also released yesterday claims Arafat's medical records indicated the late PLO leader died of a stroke. The report, which says it is the] first independent review of [Arafat's medical] records ... an omission experts found bizarre. - Yasser Arafat