As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.
I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
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