Roy Blunt Quotes

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Both times I had cancer? Preventative medicine. Caught 'em both early. I'll take physicals anytime I can get one.

I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I'm healthy so I can push myself.

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

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

You can't take good health for granted.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

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

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

There's a big difference between apps that help you manage your medical information and draw clues from your own bodies, and those that seek to actively doctor you.

I take care of my health. I nurture it.

Maintaining good health should be the primary focus of everyone.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.