“In the 1830s, Professor Pierre Adolphe Piorry, the inventor of topographic percussion taught that there were nine distinct percussion sounds, which he used to outline the patient’s liver, heart, lungs, stomach, and even individual heart chambers or lung cavities.””
“For example, the speed of an elderly person’s gait accurately predicts falls, future disability, and risk of institutionalization.””
“presence of a gait disturbance makes Alzheimer disease less likely (especially if the gait disturbance appears early during the patient’s course;””
“A shit on a plate is just a shit on a plate. It’s foul. It’s rank. It’s rancid. It’s disgusting. Until I tell you it’s art, that is. Then it’s authentic, bold, evocative, challenging, and abstruse,” he exclaimed. “Art is what I say it is, and when I say it. Until then, it’s just a shit on a plate. It’s how these wretched drug addicts, indigents, and sycophants pass their time. It’s the plank of rotting wood they cling to as they drift aimlessly through an ocean of misery and woe. It’s what keeps them from killing themselves until eventually, swollen with rejection and failure, it becomes the reason they do.””