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Barry Marshall
Australian
Scientist
Born:
Sep 30
,
1951
Always
Nobel
People
School
Stress
You
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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
Barry Marshall
You
World
Treat
School
Everybody
Symptoms
Everything
Out
Possible
Find
No Idea
Through
Idea
Most
Real
Causing
Walking
Get
Quite
Taught
Patients
Door
The Real World
Real World
Then
Your
Medical
Medical School
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall
Saying
Earth
Like
Concept
Causing
Ulcer
Germ
Flat
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
Barry Marshall
Age
Mother
Car
Reading
Nursing
Books
Born
Through
Had
He
Boundless
Well
Always
Making
Encouraged
Curiosity
Suspect
Childhood
Eight
Explained
Engine
Many
Dad
Technical
Medical
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
Barry Marshall
Funny
You
People
Mother
Made
Nurse
Funny Things
Once
Mustard
Brought
Proper
Cough
Had
Knees
Put
Most
Understood
Era
Were
Chest
Very
Did
Diseases
Tuberculosis
Difference
Little
Really
Your
Plaster
Her
Things
Treatments
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
Barry Marshall
Problem
Simple
See
Having
Could
Knew
Surgery
Ulcer
Fix
Patients
Dying
Frustrating
Even
Treatment
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
Barry Marshall
East
Mining
Rush
Born
Struck
Town
Prosperous
Western
Up
Australia
Irishman
Gold
After
Which
Miles
Desert
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
Barry Marshall
War
Family
Book
World
Old
Before
Our
Projects
Chapters
Out
Would
Favourite
Seeing
Brothers
Had
Pick
Volume
Bought
Boy
How
Were
Child
Donated
Just
Children
After
Which
Interested
Interesting
Grandfather
Special
Each
Things
World War
World War II
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
Barry Marshall
Country
Other
Prestige
Carries
Nobel
Prize
Any
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.
Barry Marshall
Health
Crazy
You
Stress
Doctors
Before
Respectable
Say
Would
Had
Ulcer
Lot
America
Disease
Century
Europe
Treatments
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.
Barry Marshall
Life
Time
Stress
Other
Those
Emerged
Somehow
More
Became
Caused
Tradition
Ulcer
Were
Freud
Same
Common
Same Time
Turmoil
Century
Theories
Popular
You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
Barry Marshall
Life
You
Stress
Few
Worried
Find
Admit
About
Someone
Something
Always
Questions
Yes
Want
Ask
Eventually
Recently
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
Barry Marshall
You
People
Cause
Stress
Everything
Out
Tell
Find
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Supposedly
Real
Caused
Prize
If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
Barry Marshall
Plants
Animals
Saw
Evolved
Would
Only
Allergy
Potentially
Area
Within
Issues
Been
Years
Lot
Began
Tiny
Africa
Different
Migrate
Plants And Animals
Million
Million Years
Humans
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
Barry Marshall
Politics
Truth
Practice
Difficult
Medicine
Dramas
Way
TV
Some
Always
Been
Medical
Portrayed
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