Quotes About Disease

As long as... diseases aren't of a catastrophic nature, people will slowly accustom themselves to them, and eventually succumb. It is then a stroke of luck-- though a bitter one--when fate decides to intervene in this slow process of decay and suddenly bring the victim face to face with the final stage of the disease. More often than not, the result of a catastrophe is that a cure is undertaken immediately, and carried through with a firm determination.

Have you ever stopped to think how weird it is that you have to take malaria pills to go to places where the population doesn't take them, or that you get injections for yellow fever, cholera, typhus and hepatitis? None of the locals are immune to these things. They just suffer them. Drug companies can find prophylactics for rich Western holiday-makers, but not for people who live with disease the other 50 weeks of the year.

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

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

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

During an epidemic doctors are happy.

Physicians rarely take medicine. #CVirusTruth

The doctor is more to be feared than the disease. #Lockdown2

The doctor is more to be feared than the disease.

There is more to be feared from the doctor than the disease. #CVirusTruth