Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine. —Catharine Maria Sedgwick More about this quote Tags: prejudice health medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “medicine” Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. —Joel Fuhrman, M.D. More about this quote Tags: disease fasting medicine diet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease it means that the disease is incurable. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: certainty sceince medicine cures Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: water cleanliness medicine air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work. —John Diamond More about this quote Tags: medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do. —Atul Gawande More about this quote Tags: knowledge science habit information medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. —Joel Fuhrman, M.D. More about this quote Tags: disease fasting medicine diet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease it means that the disease is incurable. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: certainty sceince medicine cures Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: water cleanliness medicine air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work. —John Diamond More about this quote Tags: medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do. —Atul Gawande More about this quote Tags: knowledge science habit information medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email