Healthcare
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Healthcare is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, nursing, and related professions.
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- The American healthcare system already rations life saving treatment, of course--by necessity, in transplant cases where a limited supply of donor organs is available, and by economic choice in those relatively rare (and often highly-publicized) cases where patients cannot afford surgeries or experimental therapies costing hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Jacob M. Appel, physician, The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing, June 26, 2009.
- Societal definitions of health care change drastically over time. Before World War I, childbirth was a nonmedical procedure that took place inside the home. Certainly not health care. In contrast, a journey to the Swiss Alps for the mountain air was essential therapy to many 19th-century physicians.
- Jacob M. Appel, Health Care Hard to Recognize, Tough to Define, Albany Times-Union, Nov, 12, 2009.
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- America's health care system is second only to Japan ... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain ... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!
- Homer Simpson, animated television character.
