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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.

— Ashley Montagu

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

— David Agus

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.

— Richard J. Roberts

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

— Leroy Hood

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy.

— Joe Heck

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

— Samuel Hahnemann

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

— M. Scott Peck

✗Opposing Perspectives

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

— Ivan Illich