Ami Bera Quotes

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

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.

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

I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.

All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

Health is the core of human development.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

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

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has 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.

We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.