preventive medicine
Noun
Meaning
the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
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Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.
the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine
“This is a psychological thing,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told CNN.
"My kids are always asking me what they should do for Mother's Day," said Dr. Norrina Bai Allen, associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.