The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.
Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.