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The Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust - Provides a range of care to the people of Edinburgh, Lothian and beyond over ten hospitals sites. Includes information for patients, contact details and trust news.
Tak Tent - Cancer Support Scotland - Their aim is to promote the care of cancer patients, their family and friends by providing emotional support to all.
The Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Scheme (CNORIS) - Risk management and financial risk pooling scheme for the NHS in Scotland. It was developed in partnership with the Scottish Executive Health Department and Willis Scotland Limited as scheme managers.
Scottish Health On The Web - Index to a variety of health information accessible to Scottish citizens including resources for health professionals, the general public and users of Scottish health services.
Essential Health - Provides private medical and dental insurance for individuals, groups, and companies. Includes an overview of services, a quotation form and contact information.
Scottish Association for Mental Health - Voluntary organization working to promote mental health and improve society's responses. Listing information, benefits, services and contact details.
The Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) - Information including heart disease, cancer, stroke, mental health, HIV and sexual health, oral health, accidents and safety, smoking, diet, physical activity, alcohol misuse and drug misuse.
Scottish Liver Transplant Unit - Information on how it operates, its goals and the services it offers.
BBC Scotland Online - Feeling Healthy - BBC Radio Scotland's on-line guide to health issues in conjunction with their radio programme.
Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland - Set up in 1994 to provide a focus within Scotland for direct patient care research.
Ultrasound Imaging - Providers of mobile ultrasound services. Listing Company information, benefits, services, contact details and job opportunities.
Scottish Radiological Society - Details of SRS activities, members, contact information and academic meetings. Includes the new home of The X-ray Files, a major UK radiology teaching site.
Scottish Antibody Production Unit - Development, manufacture and supply of diagnostic reagents to the NHS in Scotland.
Alzheimer Scotland - Action on Dementia - Charity campaigning and providing services for people with dementia and their carers and families; information on coping with dementia, treatments, research and local services.
National Board of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in Scotland - Statutory body responsible for ensuring standards of Education and training for nurses, midwives and health visitors in Scotland, accountable to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health - Information on communicable diseases and environmental health hazards, travel and veterinary health risks including statistical data.
Children's Hospice Association Scotland - CHAS is a Scottish charity established to provide children's hospice services in Scotland. Rachel House, Scotland's first children's hospice opened in July 1996.
Scottish Institute of Reflexologists - Lists office bearers, members, and events.
Transcendental Meditation Scotland - Guide to this form of meditation and resources.
Royal College of Nursing: Scotland - Professional union of nurses. Includes membership information and services.
CRAG - Clinical Effectiveness in Scotland - CRAG - the Clinical Resource and Audit Group - is the lead body within the Scottish Executive Health Department promoting clinical effectiveness in Scotland.
National Services Division - Information on Scottish specialist services including transplantation and spinal injuries
Ballochmyle Medical Group - Surgeries in Mauchline, Mossblown and Catrine (near Kilmarnock, Scotland). Doctors, opening hours, clinics, and useful health information.
Penumbra - Scotland's first registered supported accommodation for people with mental health problems. Provide a range of innovative mental health projects throughout Scotland.
The Scottish Road Safety Campaign - Develops and co-ordinates national road safety education and publicity initiatives.
Scotland's Health Directory - Charities, clinics, health clubs, therapists and practitioners, health related suppliers and resources in Scotland.
Special Needs Information Point - Provides advice and information on services available to children with special needs and their carers.
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Health He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Health In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Health A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Health "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Health Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Health Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Health "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Health If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Health "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Health "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Health "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Health It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Health A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Health We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Health After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Health "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Health Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Health I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Health Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Health "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Health
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