Proactive Care Quotes

Health is not valued till sickness comes

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

It costs money to stay healthy, but it’s even more expensive to get sick.

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

It is far more humane to prevent suffering than to alleviate it after it has occurred.

I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

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

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

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.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

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

You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.