Harvey Cushing Quotes

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

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it, which I can guide my patients to use as a redirection in their lives. When doctors look at their patients, however, they are trained to see only the disease.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

So what we're all hoping to do, us researchers, is to develop ways to not really just extend lifespan but to keep people healthier for longer. We may just have a greater impact than a single drug because these drugs could potentially treat one disease but prevent 20 others.

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

If the AMA [American Medical Association] is against you, you must be doing something right.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

To just meet people that have Crohn's or colitis and to hear their stories gives me a lot of hope and a lot of courage.

Ultimately, the ability to inspire people to live healthier and happier lives is what excites me both personally and professionally.

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

Our bodies are truly the result of what we eat, what we think about, and the exercise we receive. If we are not wise, these little things can soon cause major health problems that will limit our success and ability to serve.

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.

Health is really important to me and my family. It's something that we value and that I strive for on a daily basis. MedImmune, the makers of Flumist Quadrivalent, knew about that and knew how important health is for me, so it was a no brainer for me to collaborate with them.