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"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."

"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."

"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
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"I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us."


"You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice."


"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves."


"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."


"My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS."


"I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice."
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