"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Presidential Pills Update: William Safire adds to the Kennedy upper/downer history:
These medical records do not include additional drugs from Max Jacobson, who later lost his license for prescribing amphetamines. (In 1972, Times reporters Martin Tolchin and Dr. Lawrence Altman - pursuing a tip about Vice President Spiro Agnew that never panned out - followed the trail that led to the earlier supply of speed by "Dr. Feelgood" to the Kennedy White House.)
