82 Preventive Medicine Quotes
Following is our list of preventive medicine quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about prevention.
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Famous Preventive Medicine Quotes
Prevention is better than cure. — Desiderius Erasmus
When it comes to health, prevention is always better than cure. — Eric Berg
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. — Thomas Fuller
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. — Henry de Bracton
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. — Benjamin Franklin
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William J. Mayo
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William James Mayo
A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. — John Robert Colombo
Medicine 3.0 emphasizes prevention over treatment and pays attention to maintaining healthspan. It assesses and accepts risks, including the risk of doing nothing. — Peter Attia
Precaution is better than cure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ — Thomas A. Edison
Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. — Rudolf Leuckart
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. — Tom Harkin
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him. — Vincent de Paul
Short Preventive Medicine Quotes
- It’s better to prevent than to be sorry. — Spanish Proverbs
- Do everything you can to avoid needing doctors late in life. — Mark Sisson
- An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure. — English Proverbs
- It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. — Cesare Beccaria
- Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism. — Vladimir Lenin
- Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. — Linus Pauling
- Prevention of cardiovascular disease should start in people in their forties and thirties. — Peter Attia
- Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow
- The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell
- The best doctor gives the least medicines. — Benjamin Franklin
Preventive Care Quotes
Our society needs to understand, respect, care about and offer help to children, provide a favorable environment for them, and oppose and prevent violations of their rights and damage to their physical or mental health. — Xi Jinping
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians. — Michael Crapo
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians. — Michael Dean Crapo
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. — Thomas Jefferson
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite. — Chris Rock
Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine. — Vasant Lad
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. — Ivan Illich
You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother? — Cokie Roberts
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services. — Julie Bishop
On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease. — Michael Burgess
Prevention Quotes
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? — Epicurus
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent. — Ramana Maharshi
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.' — Saint John Chrysostom
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. — Steve Maraboli
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm. — Toussaint Louverture
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The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature — Joseph Pilates
Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others. — David Sinclair
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes. — Lucian Leape
As we get better at reversing aging it will be possible to take one medicine and within weeks feel and even look younger. Imagine going to a doctor to get a pill for diabetes, and this same medicine will prevent heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, and will give you more vitality too. — David Sinclair
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends. — Andrew Weil
According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the proper guidelines to cleanse, purify, and prevent disease, but also uplift oneself into a realm of awareness previously unknown. — Vasant Lad
As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death. — Helen Caldicott
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer. — Marianne Williamson
Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA. — Paul Stamets
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. — Robert Graves
The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition. — Peter Thiel
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell
We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before. — David Agus
As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world. — Robert Jarvik
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health. — William Rathje
Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS. — Whoopi Goldberg
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery. — Deepak Chopra
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll
With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed. — Thomas Pogge
I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine. — Nawal El Saadawi
I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on. — Elton John
If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need. — Annie Lennox
In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that. — Annie Lennox
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. — Thomas A. Edison
The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders. — Robert Owen
Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine. — Donald A. Norman
By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them. — Andrea Barthwell
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive. — Cedric Price
Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician. — Henry E. Sigerist
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell. — Pope Benedict XVI
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