I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not as popularly supposed alcoholism it's egotism.
Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us how we perceive ourselves how we live work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
The more I work with the body keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Bad things do happen in the world like war natural disasters disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
There are in truth no specialties in medicine since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny never to trust one's friends.