Conditions Quote by Darold Treffert Download Open image “We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.” — Darold Treffert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditions Medical Medical conditions Thinking
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“The U.S. has a so-called health care system that has nothing to do with the promotion of health. Those who run this system do… — Gary Tunsky Copy Share Image
Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine. — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Human diseases are the same as they were a thousand years ago, but doctors have given them more expensive names. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be, but we… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
