Quotes from Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.