'curable illness' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a type of health condition in a medical report, for example: "The patient was diagnosed with a curable illness, and doctors are optimistic about her recovery."
At the moment the NHS is set up to deal with curable illness and people going home well – but that's not the world we live in.
The 29 buildings in this complex are mainly hospitals where new immigrants were sent to give birth, to be treated for curable illness or to die of illnesses that had no cure.
In general, I think, how upbeat one feels about a debilitating bout of curable illness relies a lot on the advantage or disadvantage of the state of your life before diagnosis.
F1's current chairman is Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, an Austrian businessman, who has been undergoing treatment for a curable illness, and there is an F1 board meeting this week to decide on his replacement.
Moreover, even if a long-term health risk from abortion ever were established, one would be comparing sudden death in one's childbearing years to affliction with a treatable (and even curable) illness many years later.
"I see this as kind of like a person who has a very bad — but curable — illness," said Dr. Donald Berwick, president of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
The old model was curable illnesses where you went into hospital unwell and came out better.
While physicians may do an excellent job treating potentially curable illnesses, after modern medicine has no further treatment to offer, they often become tongue-tied and may even abandon their patients, leaving the task of emotional support to friends and family.
No matter how many Americans remain jobless, or lose their homes, or die of curable illnesses or choke on the dust of the World Trade Center caught in their lungs, Republicans remain dedicated to obstructing anything that might actually help the country, and therefore be claimed by the Obama administration as a success.
This is brilliant progression, but it's obvious why it's these illnesses that have been picked up upon: Not only are they the most common mental health conditions, they also fit within the idea of "curable" illnesses.
If properly prevented and treated, the cost savings would be enormous for these easily curable illnesses.
