Quotes About Prevention

We had no backup plan should disaster have occurred.

Each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Ninety thousand die of that infection. The

he didn't understand why I hadn't called him when there were clear signs of airway trouble developing.

Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness. Elderly people without these risk factors have a 12 percent chance of falling in a year. Those with all three risk factors have almost a 100 percent chance.

On ne se coupe pas la jambe avec une banane.

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Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

One way or another, I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years

Like measles, mumps, or rubella, tragedy was contagious. Unlike those diseases, there was no vaccine.

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

E@t ur food a$ ur medicine$, otherwise u hav 2 e@t medicine$ a$ ur food".

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Eating foods that contain Sodium Nitrate are as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. -Johnny The Walker

Walking 20 miles a day keeps the Witch Doctor away. -Johnny The Walker

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Why was there still no Ebola vaccine after more than 20 outbreaks of the disease since it was discovered in 1976?

The results were stunning. Among the children who had been "protected" from peanuts, 17% had developed a peanut allergy. In the group that had been deliberately exposed to peanut products, only 3% had developed an allergy.

increases in the suicide rate and in incidence of mental illness.

Learn the psychological damage that war does, and work to prevent war. There is no contradiction between hating war and honoring the soldier. Learn how war damages the mind and spirit, and work to change those things in military institutions and culture that needlessly create or worsen these injuries. We don't have to go on repeating the same mistakes.

And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to prevent the mourners from tearing each other limb from limb.