Andrew Weil Quotes

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

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

Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

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

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

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

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.