You may retrieve and be safe from adverse effects if your weaning procedures are more swift

You may advance and be absolutely irresistible, if you make for the enemy's weak points; you may retire and be safe from pursuit if your movements are more rapid than those of the enemy.

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.

From "Sun Tzu on the Art of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World"

Translated from the Chinese By Lionel Giles, M.A. (1910)

Discussion:

Again, Sun Tzu's principle is shown to be in line with low-invasive treatments and preventive healthcare.

Translation:

Treatments may be advanced and absolutely harmless, if you make for the disease's weak points; you may retrieve and be safe from adverse effects if your weaning procedures are more swift than the raising risks of complications.

If we wish to treat, the pathogen can be forced to an interaction even though it be sheltered behind a thick structure and a deep cavity. All we need do is attack some other parts that it will be obliged to react.

If we do not wish to treat, we can prevent the disease from affecting us even though the lines of our immunity be merely traced out on the defence mechanisms. All we need do is to prescribe something disturbs and blocks its mechanism of pathogenesis.

Ray Murakami