Anne Wojcicki Quotes

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Economic factors are critically important in the prevention of illness.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Let's not forget, we are all one diagnosis away from having a pre-existing condition.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

I believe health care is a civil right.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

It is amazing and pathetic how much patent medicines these people buy. There seem to be thousands of brands for sale, and whites and blacks try to buy all of them. This must be a great expense considering the low salaries paid. There is, accordingly, more sickness and misery here than anywhere else in the country.... Dangerous drugs are swallowed like chickens down corn

Everyone, without distinction as to economic and social conditions, has the right to the preservation of his health through the highest standards of food, clothing, housing and medical care which the resources of the State and community can provide. The responsibility of the State and community for the health and safety of its people can be fulfilled only by provision of adequate health and social measures