That's a really, really debilitating idea.

We're dealing with an often lethal, always debilitating encephalitic mutation.

Women used to get really debilitating surgeries to excise all of the axillary lymph nodes.

But eventually it stops working, and diabetes leads to a predictable onset of debilitating disease.

41 people who were basically outside of being really sick, paying for the one retiree who was experiencing debilitating disease.

But they don't put much stock in efforts to prolong life in the face of debilitating illness or in old age.

The problem is that the men under his care are suffering from an excruciating and debilitating condition that Archie doesn't really understand.

Diabetes, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, heart failure, lung failure things that we know are debilitating diseases, for which there's relatively little that can be done.

I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.

You have to allow for the possibility that political philosophy may make you a worse citizen rather than a better one or at least a worse citizen before it makes you a better one and that's because philosophy is a distancing even debilitating activity

And what I want to lay out for you today is a different way of thinking about how to treat debilitating disease, why it's important, why without it perhaps our health care system will melt down if you think it already hasn't, and where we are clinically today, and where we might go tomorrow, and what some of the hurdles are.