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The best prescription is knowledge.
I am my own version of the DREAM Act.
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.
I used to be a real doctor. Now I just play one on TV.
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.
The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.
Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.
The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.
Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.
The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.
At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.
My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
