Health Vulnerability Quotes

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.

When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.

It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.

With the combination of spending a fair amount of time on planes, having twins that go to elementary school, and generally living a lifestyle that is pretty high-stress, I have been known to run myself down quite easily, so I am pretty much a petri dish for germs, colds, and flus.

Let's not forget, we are all one diagnosis away from having a pre-existing condition.

A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that's a fact.

a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.