“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.” PeopleUniverseChristEnvironmentBloodTaughtDiseaseAnxietyCommunicateSexualityAidsNeighborCupsCommunionSurgeryRegisterTaught Us Author:Susan Sontag
“We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.” ShouldHumansBodyAgeRememberWaterBornWonderDiseaseDiedMajorityCleanArtificialEngineeringSurgeryAccustomedJointsAccompanyReplacementsClean WaterLasersPlumbingGenetic EngineeringInfectious DiseasesLonger LifeIndoor Plumbing Author:S. Jay Olshansky
“The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.” WellsBodyCareProcessResponsibilityStudyConditionsDiseaseFundamentalsDetailsMedicalWoundsLocalsRangeAssumptionInjuryOrgansSurgeryFractionsInfectionBenignMedical CareTumorsAnomalies Author:Francis Daniels Moore
“Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.” Has BeensShowsThreeCausesStuffMillionsStudyTakenDiseaseHundredDiscoveryMedicineUselessSurgeryPreventionNineteenBacteriaNew Discoveries Author:Thomas A. Edison
“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
“Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.” ThinkingHeartDeathChangeHealthDrugDiseaseAccountsIllnessLifestyleCombinationHealthcareSurgeryMaking ChangesComprehensiveHealthy LifestyleDiabetesPreventionHeart DiseaseLifestyle Change Author:Dean Ornish
“My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.” YearsHeartLongPastMotherOrderFourWeekDiseaseMajorsDaughterCandidatesMy DaughterSurgeryLong LifeThirteenReplacementsHeart DiseaseHeart Surgery Author:Nick Cassavetes