Paul Dudley White Quotes

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

My grandmother and father both had diabetes.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

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

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.

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 questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

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.