Richard Carmona Quotes (8 Quotes)

The emphasis should be on prevention and wellness and healthy living, ... But now we have to integrate how do we deal with these new threats of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and have the appropriate health infrastructure in place to keep our communities safe.

Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of information overload and the public health message is being diluted.

When we walked through (Monday) we saw a large, metropolitan hospital ... and patients not only receiving care but receiving the social services that they needed,

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and half of them will go on to be chronic smokers.

Hospitals were being constructed out of the wreckage. Four or five days ago, they were empty, hollow shells with nothing, ... When we went through, we saw large metropolitan hospitals functioning as multidisciplinary, tertiary-care facilities in convention centers.

The study might eventually lead to preventions or treatments for many common conditions,

Let's not automatically just rebuild a hospital because it had a certain amount of beds,