Sacks understood our frequent ability to adapt, and emphasized that the capacity for someone to adapt to a particular condition — amnesia, blindness, deafness, migraines, phantom-limb syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, and countless other conditions — cannot be known from the outset.
With obesity, heart disease, cancer and countless other conditions being highly influenced by lifestyle and self-care choices, individual behavior changes are our best hope for having a meaningful impact on the escalating cost of healthcare.
Forty years of getting burned on hot engines, cut with fan belts, soaked in grease and gasoline, and being exposed to countless harsh conditions turned my father's hands into vivid reminders that he was a man who did hard labor.
Also, the size and the composition of the circulating MP population depend on several physiological variables including exercise, menstrual cycle, age, body mass index, and on countless pathologic conditions as well as on smoking and the intake of medicine.
As a result of the unique configuration of this platform, countless crystallization conditions can be explored in the presence of hundreds of distinct polymers including, but not limited to, varying parameters such as the temperature, the degree of supersaturation, and solvent, enabling the structural landscape of a compound to be thoroughly explored.
The latter situation resembles the circumstances that increasingly surround countless medical conditions with an already "known" genetic background and it intensifies when – as in many psychiatric disorders – there is no precise knowledge of the underlying causes of the disease, either genetic or functional.
But in other ways, it's the story of countless other medical conditions that don't quite fit a linear model of "symptoms, diagnosis, treatment".
Are emergency services and local hospital trauma units prepared for the unique medical challenges associated with an older adult who has fallen or been in a traffic accident (e.g., multiple chronic conditions, countless medications)?
As an outsider, he saw the truth that middle-class Indians are too often inured to: that countless people exist in conditions close to hell yet maintain a breath-taking exuberance, dignity and decency.
But thousands on farms, both legal and illegal, continue to suffer in wretched conditions, and countless others living in the wild across Asia are threatened by poaching and their illegal capture.
