Preventive Medicine Quotes

• 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.

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  Helen Caldicott

  Mother   Technology   Doctors  

  Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam

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• Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

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  William Rathje

  Nature   Medicine   Environmental  

  "The Atlantic Monthly" Magazine, December 1989.

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• Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Medicine   Wells   Healer  

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• 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.

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  Nawal El Saadawi

  Medicine   Doctors   Practice  

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

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  Deepak Chopra

  Everyday Routine   Medicine   Drug  

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• 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. ~

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  Thomas A. Edison

  Life   Motivational   Fitness  

  Aphorism

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• 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.

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  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men   Practice   Used And Abused  

  "Cardinal Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI on Life, Faith, Family and Freedom" by John-Henry Westen, www.lifesitenews.com. April 19, 2005.

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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

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  Joseph Pilates

  Sleep   Exercise   Men  

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• 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.

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  Robert Jarvik

  Heart   Years   Medicine  

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