Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

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

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

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

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

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

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.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I'm a preventative doctor.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

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.

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

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

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.