Rob Huebel Quotes

I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer.

Despair often breeds disease.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

There are some sick people in this world.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Every man should see the birth of his children.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

The natives [Eskimos] were sick in almost every tent … and were in a very deplorable condition. …. The pity of it was that nothing was being done for their relief…. If nothing is done soon, the Eskimos will continue to become stupefied and utterly helpless and lie down to die.