I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

There is no health without mental health.

Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.