Healthcare Quotes - Page 9

• A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Years, Europe, Organization

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• I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the
  people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see
  a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for
  all people, not just the land control by the super rich.

  Bernie Sanders

  Land, America, People

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Teeth, Matter

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• Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

  Kevin R. Stone

  Cancer, Numbers, Looks

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• As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

  Seth Berkley

  Rocks, Viruses, Hiv

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• The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.

  Seth Berkley

  Vaccines, Needs, Valuable

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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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• I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?

  Thulasiraj Ravilla

  Thinking, Quality, Variation

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• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, America, Growth

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• So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Medicine, People, Broken

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• At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

  Laurie Garrett

  Fashion, Vaccines, People

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• When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic.

  Kristen Ashburn

  Beautiful, Home, Epidemics

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• There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

  Alan Russell

  Healthy, Legal System, Pay

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• It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave.

  Robert Fischell

  Heart, Men, Average

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• A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.

  Thomas Addison

  Responsibility, Years, Issues

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• 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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• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Pregnancy, Abortion Laws, Feminist

  "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

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• Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

  Robert Reich

  School, Cutting, Class

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

  Ananda Shankar Jayant

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?

  Ananda Shankar Jayant

  Beautiful, Cheer, Three

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• I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.

  Ananda Shankar Jayant

  Radiation, Cycles

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• Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

  Susan Collins

  Struggle, Drug, Cost

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• Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Mean, Men, Doctors

  "Out Of Touch:American Men And The Health Care System" by David Sandman, Elisabeth Simantov, and Christina An, March 2000.

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• People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

  Bob Barr

  Doctors, Organization, People

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