The medicine increases the disease.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone…

— Rumi

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic…

— Caldwell Esselstyn

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease

— Latin Proverb

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is…

— Hamilton Jordan

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

— Anonymous

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and…

— Sun Simiao

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no…

— Florence Nightingale

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

— James Dobson

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

— Stephen Hawking