Physicians frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified.
It’s that spirit, born of the Enlightenment, that made us an economic powerhouse – the spirit that took flight at Kitty Hawk and Cape Canaveral; the spirit that that cures disease and put a computer in every pocket.
We don't kid ourselves at the end of the day, curing hygiene insecurity is, kind of, fix and make everyone's lives better but it is certainly a meaningful part of allowing someone to feel better about themselves.
Jean Liu: And they all say why don't you -- you know, come toour city and let's do it together, right, because it cures congestion, it cures pollution, it's good.
When I am most seduced by the idea that sunlight might be a cure for an emotional descent I can no longer trace, I return to the same song: Converse's " We Lived Alone."
When we find people who have lung cancer, the tumors tend to be smaller and earlier stage so that we can intervene with modalities like surgery to try and cure them.