Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
David GeffenRead
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the increasing neglect towards HIV and AIDS amidst growing infections and the loss experienced by the community.
David Geffen's quote emphasizes the alarming rise in HIV infection and AIDS cases, while simultaneously pointing out the disturbing trend of public indifference toward the epidemic. He reflects on the significant personal losses experienced due to the disease, urging a call to action for awareness and compassion in the face of an ongoing health crisis.
In practice
In a public health seminar to motivate organizations to enhance their HIV awareness programs.
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.
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Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.
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