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- Nov 07, 2020
Disease Quotes
Illness, metaphor, and the will to endure.
This page pairs quotes about literal illness with quotes that use disease as a political metaphor - one speaker names debt as the single most corrosive force in a nation's history, another describes the private grief of a cancer diagnosis. Related reading includes Health.
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- I Have Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is an incurable disease.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, depression - all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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