Atul Gawande Quotes

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Health
  • Myself
  • motivation

• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Health
  • Will
  • Nervous

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Health
  • Care

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • America
  • Single

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Health
  • Exercise

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Health
  • Depressed

• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Future
  • Health
  • Service

• There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Power
  • Health

• Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Night
  • Health

• It was not until months after going vegetarian that I started really learning about all of the health benefits.

  

  Andy Lally
  • Health
  • Benefits
  • Vegetarian

• It was a great pleasure to make a movie again. Nothing is better; perhaps revolution, but there you have to succeed and be right, dangers which never attach themselves to making movies, and dreaming.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Revolution

• In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Health