Body Quote by Robert Owen

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

— Henry E. Sigerist

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.

— Rebecca Onie

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two…

— Hippocrates

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

— Dean Ornish

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the…

— Ashley Montagu

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.

— B. J. Palmer

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of…

— Avicenna

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

— Marcia Angell

“What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large number of…

— Gabriel Chevallier

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should…

— Charaka

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

— Michael J. Knowles