“It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.” IfsGivingLongCareUnderstandingTechnologyClearPolicyDiseaseResearchRegardMedicinePrioritiesSavingHealth CareMakersMechanismPhysiciansPrudenceObligedIncompleteSaving MoneyDeficiencyHaulHealth Care SystemLong HaulPolicy MakersBasic Research Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.” IfsLooksCarePoorMoralIssuesDiseaseFinancialIllObligationHealth CareLook UpEpidemics Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.” ThinkingYearsCountryReasonCareDiseaseTreatsDollarsSpendingHealth CareDietsLinkedAmerican Diet Author:Michael Pollan
“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.” PeopleIfsCareSpiritNationsResponsibilityDemocracyDiseaseAccountsAssumingIllnessHealth CareSicknessVolume Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart
“The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.” Has BeensWarHelpingCareDiseaseDoctorsDecadesSavingHealth CareHospitalsNurseSave A LifeMarieLive Every DayDoctors And Nurses Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.” PeopleIfsWorldWayGivingCountryHelpingUseCareChanceEconomyDiseaseResourcesBurdenHealth CareOther CountriesHopelessnessLimited ResourcesDeadly Diseases Author:Laura Bush
“It seems The Journal of Neurology reports that the longer you smoke, the less likely you are to develop Parkinson's disease. So what are they telling us? Follow me guys. Remember, a couple of months ago, doctors said drinking a glass of alcohol every day was good for your heart. Smoking prevents Parkinson's disease. Marijuana is good for glaucoma. Sex is good for your prostate. You know, screw health care. Let's party!” KnowsHeartSaidSeemsCareRememberGuySexPartyMonthsCoupleDiseaseDoctorsDrinkingGlassesAlcoholSmokeHealth CareSmokingReportsMarijuanaJournalScrewsFollow MeNeurologyParkinsonParkinson'sProstateGlaucoma Author:Jay Leno
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.” GivingYearsCareAmericaSimpleConditionsHealthDependsCitizensHealthyDrugDiseaseToolsTreatsManagementLifestyleHealth CareTherapyDietsUsaExpensiveTreatmentManifestHealthcareHealthy LivingPhysiciansSurgeryHealthy LifestyleTherapeuticHealth Care SystemAlternative MedicineManagement Systems Author:Andrew Weil
“...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.” YearsCountryCareThreeProcessIndustryDiseaseAccountsWesternHealth CareDietsPlusQuartersHealthcareMore MoneyLots Of MoneyProfitablePreventing Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHumansChildrenCountryReasonMotherRightsHealthDiseaseAspectTreatsHuman RightsOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareMemorableNurseNursingOverlookedBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.” IfsBelieveWould BeCareCommunityHealthCircumstancesDiseaseIndependenceCompetitionBe GoodProfessionAbsenceHealth CareOrganizedCanadaMinistryPublic Health Author:William Osler
“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.” CompanyVirtueHealthDiseaseVicesHealth CareContagious Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer, is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate?” MindMadeBodyCareWishNaturalAnimalHalfStudyEnvironmentHealthHabitDiseaseResearchCancerHealth CareWhy NotSurroundingsMind And BodyStrangenessEndowmentArtificiality Author:Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn