Prevention Quotes (6)
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
'The Use of Poetry', On English Poetry (1922), 85.
Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.
If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.
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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.
Commencement Address, Medical School Convocation, University of Miami (10 May 2003). From website www.michaeljfox.org.
See also: | Cure (24) | Disease (115) | Medicine (127) | Progress (117) | Resource (2) | Treatment (33)
The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure.
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.
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