It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
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It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the 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 a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.
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.
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.
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.