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"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
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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."
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"I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things."
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"I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world."
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"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."
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"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
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"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."
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"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."
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"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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"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 have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis."
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"Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever."
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"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."
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"I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it."
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"I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me."
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"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
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"I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer."
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"I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them."
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"The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction."
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"I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack."
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