"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
Public Health Hyperbole: Well, this isn’t very reassuring. Tucked into a report on obesity was this quote from the head of the CDC:
"The biggest problem we face in America is not terrorism. The biggest health problem we're facing is obesity," Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press last week.
Protecting us from our own weaknesses is a higher priority than protecting us from terrorists. Looks like it’s time to move bioterror preparedness away from the CDC and to Homeland Security. posted by Sydney on
2/10/2003 08:05:00 AM
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