Frans van Houten Quotes

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

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

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.

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

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

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 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.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

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

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.