C. Everett Koop Quotes

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• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
• The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.
• Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has…
• When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far…
• In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
• Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I…
• All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a…
• Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time
• The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.
• By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking…
• Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked…
• There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
• 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…
• 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 so…
• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected…
• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I…
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
• When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

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