Quotes About Preventive Medicine

#1. As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

Robert Jarvik

#2. Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

William Rathje

#3. Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Deepak Chopra

#4. Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Alex Gibney

#5. Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

Marianne Williamson

#6. Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

Cynthia Kenyon

#7. As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

Helen Caldicott

#8. There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Joel Fuhrman

#9. I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.

Katherine McNamara

#10. Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Cedric Price

#11. In that silence, I dream to be.

Khadija Rupa

#12. For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

William Shakespeare

#13. Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

Leroy Hood

#14. I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Melvin Van Peebles

#15. Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Marc Forster

#16. Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.

Richard Rhodes