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I am very abnormal... But it was not very long ago that I was not so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I have had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

If I am pushed, I do also have to admit I do not like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. No thanks, I am allergic. Why not just say No thanks'? I was not asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that is all.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they did not have them anywhere else.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

It is interesting when people make comments about celebrities weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they are a medical professional that is treating that celebrity. Like, This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy. If you do not treat her, then how do you know?

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors do not want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There is certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It is like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.