It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.