I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six.… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
