Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
All my life, I've been very aware of my body. I have always used it as a gauge of things. When I look at a person, and I see their body, that's the beginning of knowledge about them. Furthermore, I respect the body.
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
I'm just trying to create a working knowledge of my body. So it knows what to expect.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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