David Agus Quotes

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

Prevention is better than cure.

Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

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

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

Cancer does not discriminate.

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

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

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

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

I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.