Jack Kevorkian Quotes

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

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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!

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

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.

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

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

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

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

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

I'm a preventative doctor.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

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.

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

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.

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.

Prevention is better than cure.

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

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.