Serious Illness Quotes

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Reich Committee for the Registration of Serious Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses

Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.

There's no medical term for what I've got.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

I was a really sick kid. I developed epilepsy when I was eight years old, and I would have violent seizures, and I would - literally, I couldn't get out of bed.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

Aside from doing everything possible to provide programs for people who are seriously ill, I want to do everything humanly possible to help create a more caring society so that we can begin to counter the painful loneliness and sense of helplessness which has engulfed too many of our people.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

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