Quotes About Care

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

More than 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does nationally is preventive care - including cervical cancer screenings, breast cancer screenings, and family planning - mostly for women with low resources and income below the poverty line.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

I have fond memories of consuming a handful of almonds that were soaked the previous night and peeled the next morning. All through my school life, my mother would ensure she kept some almonds in my tiffin box so that I would always have my daily dose of nutrition handy.

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best.

My pug dog, Princess , is something else; she's my baby. I've had her for about 14 and a half years. They usually don't live any longer than 15, but I don't believe that. As long as you treat them right, they will live a long time.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about or on a subject that appeals to me.

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

It is our responsibility - our duty - as Members of Congress to prioritize the care of the brave men and women who risked their lives to protect their fellow Americans.

Prioritize your family.

My family is always my priority.

My children are my priority and always have been.

My first priority is trying to protect my family.