Laurie Hernandez Quotes

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

[Public Health] means the saving and lengthening of lives of thousands of citizens, the extension of the vigorous working period well into old age, and the prevention of inefficiency, misery, and suffering. These advances can be made by organized social effort. Public health is purchasable.

I'm a preventative doctor.

When it comes to matters of health, it's the one thing you can't control. Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted. But the few times that I've seen loved ones in the hospital or not being able to do something they could normally do, it really sucks.

The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will say personally that my goal as surgeon general is to help build a culture of prevention in America so that we are a nation that is as good at preventing illness as we are at treating it.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame.

As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

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.