Occupation: Former United States Surgeon General Birth: October 14, 1916 Death: February 25, 2013
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..
The best prescription is knowledge..
There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional ….
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatr….
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? A….
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasi….
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take..
If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and le….
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up..
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I ….
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed a….
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 ….
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when ….