The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

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. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

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 thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.