Preventative Medicine Quotes

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

I think, in general, medicine in the 21st century will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy... If you find ways to repair the memory damaged by Alzheimer's disease or dementia and so forth, it is very likely that the same methods could be used to upgrade the memory of completely healthy people.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don't overeat. I don't develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don't work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties - not using your brain, not using your body.

Basically, I'm just an average person who takes a little extra care of his health.

It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Everyone's dream is to take a pill - take a pill every day so you won't have Alzheimer's.

If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Food is the new health care.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

I don't take any type of shots. I feel like I take the shots that are necessary and open.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.

In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not be allowed to suffer and die untended.