"If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream."
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"I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency."
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"By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients."
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"A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life."
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"Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases."
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"Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions."
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"The medicine increases the disease."
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"I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on."
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"You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul."
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"Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments."
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"We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place."
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"Medicine: "Your money and your life!"
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"The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage."
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"The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine."
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"The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding."
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"Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry."
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"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases."
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"It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness."
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"Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes."
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"Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist."
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