“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
“Primum non nocere, 'First, don't make things worse,' was an essential principle of Hippocrates' medicine. Nowadays, unfortunately, it seems to have been… — Samuel Sagan Copy Share Image
“In modern medicine, we have a name for everything, but a cure for nothing.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, had described the body’s ability to heal itself, which he called veriditas (green life force). He… — Steven R. Gundry Copy Share Image
“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The conceptual problem at the center of contemporary healthcare is the confusion between disease processes and disease origins. Instead of asking why… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“In 1980, Stanford University internist and epidemiologist James Fries recognized that modern medicine was not extending the human lifespan, and yet survival… — George E. Vaillant Copy Share Image
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But… — Gary Greenberg Copy Share Image
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to… — Frank Welker Copy Share Image
“Given the right conditions, the body heals itself. If you whack your shin really hard on a coffee table, it can get… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the body aging process cannot be stopped and it is necessary to just accept it. Now, you will… — Densm Copy Share Image
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.” — Michael Lam Copy Share Image
“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
