Occupation: Former United States Surgeon General Birth: October 14, 1916 Death: February 25, 2013
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them..
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..
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes..
Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the L….
When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the….
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 minut….
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.
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 t….
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 ….
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were aske….
Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one i….
The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others..
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society..
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….
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 t….
In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life..
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days..
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health..
The best prescription is knowledge..
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century..
The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger..