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

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

Mind Inspiration Motivation Crosses Busy Healthcare Strokes

“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.”

Needs Country Able Goal Numbers Issues Achieve Majors Concern Weak Aids Our Country Healthcare Improving Facility Hiv Inadequate Preventing Hiv Aids Health System Sub Saharan Africa

Author:John Dramani Mahama

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

“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.”

Care Lasts America Past Fighting Lines Democracy Clear Week Modern Century Vote Bills Finals Health Care Healthcare Providing Historic Seriousness

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.”

Years Today Girl Individual Grows Numbers Millions Baby Expected Retiring Healthcare Senior Disabled Medicare Baby Girl Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:Jim Bunning

“Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.”

Children Environment Harm Administration Pregnancy Healthcare Pregnant Emissions Public Health Mercury Pregnant Women

Author:Mark Dayton

“Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.”

People Trying Care Today America Faces Waiting Disease Sick Billions Health Care Disability Healthcare Disabled America Today Obese Health Care System

Author:Tom Harkin

“Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.”

People Way Helping Young Social Grows Vision Growing Up Example Health Married Entrepreneur Patterns Healthcare Better Ways Delivering Social Entrepreneurship

Author:Bill Drayton

“If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.”

Ifs Problem Inspiration Motivation Three Ability Emotion Negative Manage Healthcare Negative Emotions Positive Emotions

Author:Jane McGonigal

“Romney raised $10 million. That’s a dollar for every position he’s had on healthcare.”

Millions Position Dollars Raised Healthcare Romney

Author:Jay Leno

“We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.”

Years Inspiration Today Motivation Average Healthcare Grandparent Living On Great Grandparents

Author:Jane Fonda

“We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.”

Inspiration Motivation Adults Debt Healthcare Obese

Author:Brené Brown

“People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.”

People Inspiration Motivation Fine Insane Healthcare

Author:Ruby Wax

“Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.”

Whole Inspiration Motivation Poverty Generations Tasks Scientist Climate Climate Change Healthcare Physicians Pathways My Generation Our Generation

Author:Atul Gawande

“The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.”

Whole Inspiration Pain Motivation Belief Effects Expectations Performances Medicine Get Better Fascinating Treatment Healthcare Pills Placebo Placebo Effect

Author:Ben Goldacre

“Beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money; we're healthier, physically and emotionally; we produce happier, more stable and more successful kids; we have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends; we even live longer.”

People Inspiration Kids Motivation Sex Successful Produce Married Profound Healthcare Stable More Money Perks

Author:Jenna McCarthy

“By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.”

People Moments Inspiration Motivation Love Is Exercise Healthcare Making Love Slow Down Slowing Right Moment

Author:Carl Honore

“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.”

Years Humans Important Hands Inspiration Motivation Next Innovation Medicine Healthcare Human Hands

Author:Abraham Verghese

“As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.”

Persons Inspiration America Motivation Black White Five Risk Air Walking Areas Distance Plant Chemicals Healthcare Pollution Facility Black Person Power Plants Air Pollution Air Quality

Author:Majora Carter

“The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.”

Inspiration Motivation Five Negative Formulas Healthcare Interaction Remarks Happy Marriage

Author:Nancy Etcoff

“[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.”

Years Inspiration Able Motivation Dies Perfect Aging Therapy Healthcare

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.”

Moments Inspiration Motivation Water Modern Century London Healthcare Founding 19th Century Public Health Modern Day

Author:Steven Johnson

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

Men Inspiration Motivation Violence Disease Proportion Healthcare Epidemics Violence Against Women

Author:Tony Porter

“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.”

Knows Play Inspiration Running Motivation Results Roles Confusion Command Chains Healthcare Nobody Knows Pandemics Chain Of Command

Author:Laurie Garrett

“Music really is our daily medicine.”

Inspiration Motivation Medicine Healthcare

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.”

Hard Inspiration Motivation Answers Honest Complicated Being Honest Healthcare

Author:Rebecca Onie

“More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.”

People Inspiration Motivation Dies Walking Bases Driving Miles Drunk Healthcare Drunk Driving

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.”

Ifs Knows Persons Body Inspiration Motivation Risk Higher Percent Size Healthcare Obesity Obese

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.”

Thinking Inspiration Used Motivation Cancer Therapy Healthcare

Author:Eva Vertes

“[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.”

Real Shows Inspiration Motivation Courses Shame Rays Healthcare Show Me Lumps

Author:Ruby Wax

“There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.”

People Inspiration Motivation Found Growing Stress Shoes Injury Healthcare Runners Barefoot Ailments Subculture

Author:Christopher McDougall

“We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.”

Believe Heart Inspiration Motivation I Believe Losing Patient Ritual Healthcare Physicians Transcendent

Author:Abraham Verghese

“It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.”

May Inspiration Motivation Courses Fun Dying Healthy Miserable Dependent Healthcare Frail Healthy Life

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.”

Ifs States Inspiration Would Be Today Motivation United United States Rich Drug India Cancer China Eight Healthcare China And India

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.”

Inspiration Care Motivation Disease Take Care Expensive Healthcare

Author:Alan Russell

“In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.”

Years Persons Two Inspiration Care Today Lasts Motivation Term Disease Dollars Health Care Two Years Healthcare

Author:David Agus

“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.”

Mean Important Perspective Type Disease Cancer Data Breasts Healthcare Threatening Lungs Breast Cancer Mutation Lung Cancer Rare Diseases

Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong

“What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.”

Humans Real Belief Information Access Healthcare Affordable

Author:Elizabeth Holmes

“Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.”

Want Painful My Time Healthcare Time Heals

Author:Sergey Brin

“The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.”

World May Long Raises Court Supreme Granted Employee Healthcare Hobbies Arrangements Supreme Court Ruling Employers Parental

Author:Uwe Reinhardt

“I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.”

Thinking Needs Lying Situation Doctors Healthcare Medication Really Sad

Author:Liz Miller

“Not too far away from now - in the next 6-7 years - 75 million Americans will be retail buyers of healthcare. And they'll come to the marketplace with their own money and either a subsidy from their employer or a subsidy from their government. And it doesn't much matter - they'll be spending their money.”

Years Matter Government Next Millions Spending Healthcare Far Away Employers Marketplace Retail Buyers Subsidies

Author:Mark T Bertolini

“If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.”

Ifs Honest Healthy Aspiration Healthcare Harbors

Author:Rebecca Onie

“The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'”

Fields Activity Patient Daily Life Healthcare Tumors Tiredness

Author:William Doyle

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

Years Real Fighting Causes Response Noise Flight Loud Damage Healthcare Cardiovascular Loud Noises

Author:A. J. Jacobs

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

World Years Lost Millions Healthy Europe Organization Noise Healthcare Pollution Healthy Living World Health World Health Organization Noise Pollution

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.”

World Faces Social Compassion Generations Poison Our World Healthcare Psycho Shrinking Immunity Toxins

Author:Joan Halifax

“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.”

Ifs Giving Matter Wanted No Matter What Wounds Teeth Healthcare Surgeons Bleeding Haircuts Barbers Purging

Author:Abraham Verghese

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

Looks May Numbers Cancer Ruins Healthcare Arthritis

Author:Kevin R. Stone

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