The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support read more

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted

War is the symptom, not the disease.

War is the symptom, not the disease.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, read more

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.