Healthcare Quotes - Page 9

• Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

  Nguyen Quyen

  Sports, Team, Night

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• This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

  Jane Chen

  Baby, Parent, Population

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• Music really is our daily medicine.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Motivation, Inspiration, Medicine

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• To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Country, Numbers, Issues

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• Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.

  Vinod Khosla

  Scratches, Lessons, Ifs

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• You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dream, Degrees, Needs

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• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

  Mike Rounds

  People, Risk, Age

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• [I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine....On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can also say without hesitation, that the quality of healthcare in this county is second to none - and sacrificing quality to achieve these necessary reforms is not acceptable. A single payer, government run healthcare system is the worst possible way to achieve this goal.

  Glenn Thompson

  Running, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.

  Geoff Mulgan

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• Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

  Larry Brilliant

  War, People, Disease

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• When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

  Dan Ariely

  Retirement, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?

  Tim O'Reilly

  Successful, Government, Answers

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• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Medical

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• In an interview, last year in the journal Biotechnology Healthcare, Dr. Berwick said, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

  Donald Berwick

  Eye, Years, Decision

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• Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

  Rick Renzi

  Native American, Unique, Numbers

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• America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

  Bill Frist

  Doctors, America, World

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• I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.

  Tom Vilsack

  Vegetables, People, Focus

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• We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.

  Shepard Smith

  Men, Ebola, Two

  "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.

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• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

  Abraham Verghese

  Average, Physicians, Patient

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• Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.

  Tony Alessandra

  Inspirational, Educational, Winning

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• In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Past, America

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• Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

  Laurie Garrett

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

  Tony Porter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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