Frans van Houten Quotes

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

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare.

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!

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

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

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

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

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

There is no limit to how much health you can provide people.

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.