Patrick Soon-Shiong Quotes

• I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Thinking, Awake, I Can

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• Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.

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  Play, Way, Saws

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• I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

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  Real, Doctors, Trying

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

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  World, Want

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• It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

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  Cancer, Long, Drug

  "Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Richest Man, Ups The Ante On Cancer Research, City Life" by Ronald Grover, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

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  Blessed, Technology, Ideas

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• The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Body, Pancreas, Organs

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

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  Looks, Patterns

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

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  Cancer, Mean, Data

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• Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

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  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

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  Issues, Epidemics, Care

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• I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

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  Cancer, Cells, Phases

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• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

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  Cancer, Thinking, Epidemics

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• The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

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  Care, Way, Foundation

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• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

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  Cancer

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• We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

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  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

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  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Country, Thinking, Melting

  "Patrick Soon-Shiong on Giving and Getting by in Los Angeles". Interview with Gabriel Kahn, www.lamag.com. April 18, 2013.

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