“If I ever thought I was dealing with someone with a meningococcal disease I would have dispatched an ambulance straight away.”
Annie Gray
“Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”
Susan Sontag
“A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Animals that aren't exposed to disease don't get sick from those diseases. The logic is so simple, it's laughable.”
Charles Corsiglia
“High blood pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Depression, Substance abuse, Obesity, STDs - all preventable, all treatable, most curable. Yet, more than half of Americans are dealing with at least one of these issues. Change your thoughts! Change your habits! Change your life!”
Tamara Aw
“In a very real way, the whole family has cancer. Traditionally, we thought of the disease being contained within the patient. But if we look at it from the other lens, we see how it hits the emotions and social relationships of families.”
Jason Carroll
“It's come full circle -- first they thought it was a great drug for heart disease that might cause cancer, then they thought it might prevent cancer. But we now know they can take the drug safely without risk of cancer.”
Michael White
