We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
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.
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
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 health is another exceedingly important thing.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.