"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
Great Surgeon, Even Better Prognosticator: Dr. DeBakey on the prognosis he gave Boris Yeltsin in 1996 after operating on his heart:
Considering the amount of heart damage Mr. Yeltsin had suffered before the bypass, Dr. DeBakey estimated in 1996 that the surgery would allow Mr. Yeltsin to live comfortably for 10 to 15 years — or as he put it last week, "We gave him 10 ½ years."