Medicine
- Periodic acid-Schiff stain, a staining method used to detect glycogen in tissues.
- Para-aminosalicylic acid, an old treatment for tuberculosis
- Physician-assisted suicide
- Post-abortion syndrome
- PA-S: Physician Assistant Student, abbreviation used by PA students in patient documentation
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)