Andrew Weil Quotes

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

Nothing is better than getting sick kids better.

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

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

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

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.