My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I don't have ulcers; I give them.
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.
No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
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