Mikhail Varshavski Quotes

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

Every year, my mom makes sure I have my checkups and everything, which is probably a really good idea. She's great with all that health stuff.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

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.

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change.

Vaccination and other essential preventive services must be delivered close within communities.

Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

I'm a family doctor, and a big part of what I do is preventative care, and breast cancer is one of the illnesses that women suffer from greatly in this country.

A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!