Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's important because that's what precipitates an acute heart attack or stroke.

There are visible cases of malnutrition among the new arrivals. A toddler died last week on arrival suffering from dehydration and three young children died in January from acute respiratory infection.

Lucius Accius

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

While there are a lot of chemicals in the water, they probably don't rise to the level of an acute toxin. Probably the biggest danger right now is the sewage.

The organization is in really good shape. This is an opportunity for someone with real acute business sense to move into a leadership role.

Joel Fuhrman

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Rodrigo Rato

We see a recovery in Europe, not very acute but a recovery, and we see a more broad-based recovery in Japan.

The problem we are facing is huge. The acute demand is leading to supply-side shortages.

You have the most acute health-care workforce shortage in the country.

Secondhand smoke is even worse than we thought. It increases the risk for an acute coronary event like a heart attack or long-term development of atherosclerosis.

Robert Reich

So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.

Jay Rockefeller

I am saddened to learn of Bob's passing. Bob was an outstanding journalist and an acute political observer.

But there's still almost 30 percent of patients in a recent survey that weren't getting aspirin during an acute heart attack.

Based on recent literature, freeze, flight, fight, fright, faint provides a more complete description of the human acute stress response sequence than current descriptions.

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.

I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button. But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in.

She was in an acute condition when she was admitted on Monday ... she had bird flu symptoms. Her condition continued to deteriorate and at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, she died.

Shoaib Akhtar

I have acute pain in my right shoulder which is very stiff. I could have played by taking pain killer injections but it is risky and I have decided to take the rest.

Because there is no way to tell (in the short term) whether symptoms are from a TIA or an acute stroke, patients should assume that all stroke-like symptoms signal an emergency and should not wait to see if they go away,

Hospitals are in the business of providing a certain level of acute care.

Mr (Joseph) Estrada is complaining of fever and night chills and the preliminary diagnosis of the doctor is that he has an acute bronchitis. He's also been complaining of pain in his joints and legs.

Occidental is a real community clinic and a lot of people who come here come from not only the town but from surrounding cities. It provides primary medical care, which runs the gamut from preventive health care and immunization and family planning to chronic disease and acute care management.

Gary Lewis

It is an excellent treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, and has dramatically improved the cure rate and survival rate for patients with this disease. It also appears to prevent recurrence of head and neck cancer in those patients that have been treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy,

Someone like Landseer, for example, painted (animals) like they were human, which is why we can relate to them. Landseer combines an acute observation of animal behavior with qualities more human in nature.

David Frost

Manufacturing has persistently failed to sustain recovery and, in spite of the modest fourth-quarter improvement, faces acute threats.

James Rothman

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

We need replication in other studies but, if it is verified, it means there would be another approach to conditioning a patient that would greatly minimize acute GVHD but lead to the same beneficial effects,

It doesn't take much to cause big effects. If you already have compromised coronary circulation and go into a smoky environment, there is a substantial increase in your risk of an acute event.

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed

Roald Dahl

I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.

I could not put any weight on my legs at all. I suffered acute pain in the knees and the lower body had stopped functioning.

Edward Hirsch

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.