Quotes About Disease

It is much more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what sort of disease the person has," Osler instructed his trainees at the turn of the twentieth century.

Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

En los últimos veinte años se han reportado al menos diez patógenos que incrementan el peso en humanos y animales, incluyendo virus, bacterias y microflora en los intestinos.

but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

I have always found the man to be a spineless, venomous, bore. I have often hoped that he would contract some wasting disease which would expose him to lethal levels of humiliation.

Mihalovic and other critics claim that chemotherapy, in actuality, boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates by destroying the immune system, increasing neurocognitive decline, disrupting endocrine functioning, and causing organ and metabolic toxicities. Patients basically live in a permanent state of disease until their death.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

The road to sobriety is a simple journey for confused people with a complicated disease.

Love is a disease which cannot be cured by medicinal herbs.

A arte é ciumenta, ela não quer que a doença lhe tenha precedência. Faço, portanto, a seu gosto.

When it is acute, we call it disease; when it is chronic, we call it nature. It is a disease

When I feel ill, cinema pictures of the circumstances of my death flit across my mind's eye. I cannot prevent them. I consider the nature of the disease and all I said before I died- something heroic, of course!

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.