In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.
All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.
I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.
And I had this sense, even though I couldn't quite wrap my head around what it meant to have a cancer diagnosis at 22, that the person I'd been before was buried, there was no returning to that pre diagnosis itself.
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.
I believe gelato is meant to be treated as medicine and taken daily as a prescription.
When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.
It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.