Disease Quotes

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.