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we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with my prairie dog was the best way to avoid diseases.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

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.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

With liquid zeolite, we have returned to the basic healing approach for all chronic diseases, which is to free up and activate the vital life force. Liquid zeolite is truly an alchemical gift from the Divine

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.

You can't keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.