Quotes About Primary Health Care

#1. Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Gary Hopkins

#2. The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

Atul Gawande

#3. She wasn't quiet. Neither was he. While it lasted, they were as close as two people could be. But afterward, she didn't stay the night.

Ruthie Knox

#4. Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed ... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Donald Berwick

#5. The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

Nancy Travis

#6. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.

Jamila Hammad

#7. A sleeping bag is a tortilla for a human.

Mitch Hedberg

#8. We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

Jeff Merkley

#9. All's I'm saying is love's a blessing, no matter all the same.

Abigail Roux

#10. There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

Gregory Wasson

#11. Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Amy Tan

#12. Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Jan Schakowsky

#13. In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jan Schakowsky