#illness

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses. ↗

— Lee Haney

#after #blood #blood pressure #cancer #cleansing

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. ↗

— Herodotus

#exposed #illness #men #strikes

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#am #bragging #came #come #funeral

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cope #describe #difficult #entire #entire life

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. ↗

— Hippocrates

#blessings #consider #derive #greatest #health

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #collection #collectors #demands #energy

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#because #dealing #depression #experience #had

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. ↗

— John Hutton

#allow #disease #expanded #greater #higher

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#diagnosis #disease #early #either #emphasis